May 2009 photograph by C. Ford Peatross, staircase, former Restaurant Longchamps # 12, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street (Empire State Building), opened 1938. Photo courtesy of C. Ford Peatross Winold Reiss’ Stairway Of the many glorious Manhattan restaurants he designed, all that survived to our age was that one stairway, descending graciously... News 20 Aug 2022 | 01:29
Cover of Arthur Drooker’s “City Hall.” Photo courtesy of Arthur Drooker City Halls Celebrated Think of all the bad raps City Hall gets: “You can’t fight it.” It’s where our local representatives fight over budgets and... City Arts 07 Mar 2021 | 10:57
The Oculus at the World Trade Center station holds a secret that ties it to sites like Stonehenge and Karnak. Photo: Anthony Quintano -www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/28992861302/in/photostream/ The City as Art “There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,” Robert Rauschenberg once said. Like so many in our... City Arts 03 Aug 2020 | 05:18
Architectural historian Francis Morrone. ( Photo: Patricia Rainsford) Changing the Way We Look at the City’s Architecture Francis Morrone has written the book on New York architecture, literally. Having penned 13 titles such as “The Architectural... News 05 Jul 2020 | 05:59
