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Lower Manhattan
Posted inArt
Revisiting a 1992 Sign Project that Acknowledged NYC’s Lost Histories
In 1992, artist collective REPOhistory installed 39 aluminum signs in Lower Manhattan that highlighted the overlooked history of New York City.
Posted inNews
Three Years After Sandy, South Street Seaport Gets $10.4 Million from FEMA
This week the South Street Seaport got an essential boost.
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Wall Street’s 18th-Century Slave Market Finally Recognized with Historic Marker
Whether under Dutch, British, or American control, New York’s early development was supported by slavery.
Posted inOpinion
Stacked Boxes and BIG Statements in New Design for 2 World Trade Center
Bjarke Ingels revealed his proposal for 2 World Trade Center in an article for Wired on Tuesday. The final unbuilt plot at the hallowed New York City site — which had for a decade been reserved for a Norman Foster-designed scheme — may now give rise to a dramatically stepped, 1,340-foot glass tower.
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All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin
In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.
