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9/11 Place and Memory

 When the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) were built they were almost universally maligned – they were out of scale and ruined the lower Manhattan skyline, the inhuman scale was...

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Underground Trolley Terminal Re-envisioned as a Public Park

By now, I think we’ve all heard about the Highline in NYC, a successful adaptive reuse project that transformed an abandoned elevated train line into a public park.  The incredible popularity of the...

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Last Dirt Road(s) in Manhattan

Speaking of the last commercial stable in downtown Lexington and alleys, check out the last dirt roads in Manhattan! Sylvan Court. Image via Scouting New York Broadway Alley is a 265 feet long...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Abandoned...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. NYC Micro...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. A Place Worth...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Louis Sullivan:...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Oral History About...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Never-before-seen...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Edith Windsor (at...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Treasures in the...

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Preservation Is…

If we don’t care about our past, we cannot hope for the future… I care desperately about saving old buildings. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady, editor, and historic preservationist on...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Abandoned Walmart...

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A Review of Sam Robert’s Grand Central: How a Terminal Transformed America

Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”  Where and how we build something tells a story of time and place, but how the building is used and its...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. Long Lost Van Gogh...

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A weekly round-up of my favorite preservation related stories from around the web and in the news. Click on the title of each story to jump through to the original article/blog post. To Get Around...

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