Caught! People actually using Gramercy Park

Face of the Day

Gristede's Aisle 3

Rough part of Murraytown

This used to be Staples

Face of the day

For the love of god

Abandoned Building

132 East 29th Street (between Lexington and Third)

Inside Brother Jimmy's

Ghost Riders

Our very own Reginald Chan is on page 10 of the slide show

http://nymag.com/news/features/47819/

Future Ace Hotel

http://www.acehotel.com/newyork/
coming to 29th and Broadway (SE corner)
this is from last week, all those crap perfume stores are leaving
they have "moving to" signs...

19th and Third, last week

SW corner

Massive

Cool Geometric House

Face of the Day

More

Smart!

Massive

Puppies of High Status

Orange Building

Holy Jesus

Get the whole story at "Jeremiah's Vanishing New York" blog, link above

Worrisome

From this morning

Some nice stuff, NE corner of 30th and Lex, might still be there!

Some nasty stuff

Does this have a technical term? What exactly are they doing, cleaning it or redoing the facade?

Scary Entrance Award nominee

16 E 30th Street

Brother Jimmy's almost ready

Pretty House of the Week

I think they're in it for the money

Murraytown Pride

So this is odd. I m doing research on Murray Hill, and Google gives me this link at #1 for "Murray Hill New York":

http://nymag.com/realestate/articles/neighborhoods/midtowneast.htm

But it's not for Murray Hill, but Midtown East.

So I look on the menu to the left, and it has Murray Hill on the list. I click on that:

http://nymag.com/realestate/articles/neighborhoods/murrayhill.htm

And get this, which says Murray Hill in the title, but talks about the UES and Gramercy Park.

Kips Bay Plaza renderings

This website has really interesting information on Kips Bay Plaza, completed in 1961. Let's just say that the exposed, deep concrete grid which combines interior and exterior and protects against glare and direct sun (and an atomic bomb, from the looks of it) --- uh, it might not be I.M. Pei's best work, right?

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GRP/GRP032.htm

"combines both interior and exterior, structure and finish, into an integral whole"

"the deep concrete grid protects against glare and direct sun"

"the first exposed concrete residential buildings in New York City"