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Noticing New York: Municipal Art Society, Once Venerable, Becomes Platform For Disseminating Misinformation Promoting Development, In this Case Backing Library Sales and Shrinkage
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Monday, June 15, 2015. Municipal Art Society, Once Venerable, Becomes Platform For Disseminating Misinformation Promoting Development, In this Case Backing Library Sales and Shrinkage. Linda Johnson speaking to her MAS audience about libraries as real estate- Pictures of the event are up on Flickr. I used to be a member of the Municipal Art Society. I used to routinely encourage others to become members as well. But now. . . . I don’t know that this gives me greater or lesser rights to be irked wit...
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Noticing New York: Inspiration For The Non-Library: The Genesis Of The Design For The Space That Won’t Be Able To Replace The Donnell Library
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Friday, November 1, 2013. Inspiration For The Non-Library: The Genesis Of The Design For The Space That Won’t Be Able To Replace The Donnell Library. The design to 'replace' Donnell. The bleacher/stairs can be used to show people David Niven movies. Who knows what will serve as inspiration for the fertile imagination? Or, as the case may be, for the not-so-fertile imagination. Previously, it was once supposed that the design ( above. To the public) was the design ( below. From A AS Architecture. Thereof)...
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Noticing New York: Real Estate Deal Revelations In Scott Sherman’s New “Patience and Fortitude” About NYPL Central Library Plan Fight: Observer-Owning Kushner Family In At Outset of Donnell Sale
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Saturday, June 6, 2015. Real Estate Deal Revelations In Scott Sherman’s New “Patience and Fortitude” About NYPL Central Library Plan Fight: Observer-Owning Kushner Family In At Outset of Donnell Sale. I am reading and now am almost at the conclusion of Scott Sherman’s new “Patience and Fortitude- Power, Real Estate, and the Fight to Save a Public Library.”. The book’s official release date is a few days from now, but ordering directly from the publisher. In the meantime, the book produces some revelation...
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Noticing New York: SIBL, NYPL's Science, Industry and Business Library Sold At An Unreported Loss To The Public (And an Elucidating Sideways Look At The BAM South Library Real Estate Games)
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Saturday, June 15, 2013. SIBL, NYPL's Science, Industry and Business Library Sold At An Unreported Loss To The Public (And an Elucidating Sideways Look At The BAM South Library Real Estate Games). Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) in the former Altman building. Did you know it ultimately cost the New York Public Library (NYPL) 25% more. That it expected to build its new Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) when it bought part of the old B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue?
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Noticing New York: Condoning The Sale and Shrinkage Of The Brooklyn Heights Library, Does The Brooklyn Heights Associations Think Of Friends Group As A Fig Leaf? It Should Think Again.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013. Condoning The Sale and Shrinkage Of The Brooklyn Heights Library, Does The Brooklyn Heights Associations Think Of Friends Group As A Fig Leaf? It Should Think Again. Awning of 24 Monroe Place in foreground, 19 Monroe Place in background. Two addresses associated with the sale and shrinkage of libraries. See: The Brooklyn Paper, March 29, 2013, Heights Association not a book critic: Group isn’t fighting library building sale. By Jaime Lutz.). When Hallen took over the group she, ...
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Noticing New York: Previews Of The Proposed New Donnell Library: The NYPL Unveils Its Version Of The “Silk Purse” Libraries It Envisions For Our Future
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Friday, May 24, 2013. Previews Of The Proposed New Donnell Library: The NYPL Unveils Its Version Of The “Silk Purse” Libraries It Envisions For Our Future. NYPL COO David G. Offensend presenting plans for `replacement' Donnell Library at Community Board 5 meeting. Architectural plans for what they are calling the `replacement’ for the Donnell Library are out and they are likely to shock you. See: A Place to Hang Out (Read, Too). By Ginger Adam Otis, May 7, 2013. The NYPL sold most of its rights and space...
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Noticing New York: Questions Brooklyn Community Board 2 Land Use Committee And Other Members Are Raising About The Proposed Sale And Shrinkage of the Brooklyn Heights Central Destination Downtown Library
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Sunday, July 5, 2015. Questions Brooklyn Community Board 2 Land Use Committee And Other Members Are Raising About The Proposed Sale And Shrinkage of the Brooklyn Heights Central Destination Downtown Library. Wednesday, June 17th, the FIRST EVER public hearing. About the proposed sale and shrinkage of an important New York City library, was held before Brooklyn Community Board 2's Land Use Committee. No hearings were required because, as noted, the city didn't own the land being sold, but it would have be...
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Noticing New York: Where Are They Now?: Sharon Greenberger, Evercore and the Revson Foundation- Selling And Shrinking NYC Libraries
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Saturday, June 6, 2015. Where Are They Now? Sharon Greenberger, Evercore and the Revson Foundation- Selling And Shrinking NYC Libraries. Sharon L. Greenberger in government and now . . . still selling libraries? Sometimes coincidence seem just too frequent and sometimes it will surprise you where certain people will turn up. Sharon L. Greenberger. Back last August I wrote a long article, the saga of the Brooklyn Public Library’s creation and pursuit of a “Strategic Real Estate Plan”. The “L”. It was Ms&#...
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Noticing New York: New Images of What Developer’s Luxury Tower Would look Like When It Kicks Out Brooklyn’s Central Destination Downtown Library, Stomps It Down To 1/3rd Size
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015. New Images of What Developer’s Luxury Tower Would look Like When It Kicks Out Brooklyn’s Central Destination Downtown Library, Stomps It Down To 1/3rd Size. Here are some new images, released in an information dump just before Wednesday’s Hearing (the 17th) on whether the public should approve the sale and shrinkage of the Brooklyn Heights Library, Brooklyn's central destination library in Downtown Brooklyn on Cadman Plaza West at Tillary and Clinton. The new tower is not. In the ...
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Noticing New York: “Barclays”? Atlantic Yards?: On Lopate, NY Mag Architectural Critic Justin Davidson Disses Brooklyn Neighborhoods With Manhattancentric Illiteracy
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012. On Lopate, NY Mag Architectural Critic Justin Davidson Disses Brooklyn Neighborhoods With Manhattancentric Illiteracy. Neighborhood corner with Freddy's Bar. Now gone): According to architectural critic Justin Davidson the neighbrohood had "no character". Maybe we should just rename New York Magazine, “Manhattan Magazine”. Rupert’s Real Estate Rags .”. Murdock, at least- a relief, sold and no longer still owns New York Magazine which languished under him.) . . . Lopate: Are we ...
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