The New York Times did this piece on the world’s most expensive parking spaces, located up a car elevator adjacent to the owner’s condo. These units, on 11th Ave. in New York, go for $7 million, and the real estate dedicated to the car is valued at $800,000. The real estate agent notes that the parking spaces aren’t the primary selling point, but they do help differentiate the property from others in the luxury market.
How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - an interactive map
In the process he has confirmed his status as one of America’s best-known progressive developers, a guy who is sometimes called the “socialist developer,” a label that makes him chuckle.New York Times Magazine article on Greg O’Connell
I didn’t realize you could get this kind of 3D imagery with Google Maps + Google Earth. Awesome.
Photo 1: Chicago, Millenium Park and Michigan Ave.
Photo 2: New York, Times Square
Photo 3: Minneapolis, 6th St. and Marquette Ave.
Slate is doing a delightfully nerdy series of articles on signage and wayfinding. Their most recent article is on the labyrinth that is Penn Station in NYC. The article goes beyond simple sign design and probes into the relationship between Penn Station’s tenants: Amtrak, LIRR, and NJ Transit.
NYC right on top of Houston makes for quite a comparison. Great graphic.
Via Infrastructurist.
A nice article about how public soccer fields are used around NYC. I particularly liked this part:
The subways are known as one of the great equalizers of New York, a place where executives on their way to work stand inches from those coming off the night security shift. But pick-up soccer equalizes in much the same way and with more meaningful interaction. We’ve never once played without gaining an extra player looking for teammates.
This is so true. I’ve been following the drama of my Portland Timbers moving to MLS next year. There was a lot of push back from people because they were evicting AAA baseball to convert the stadium into a soccer only facility. People felt that this foreign sport was very literally pushing aside America’s pastime. I think as the millenial generation who grew up with soccer really comes of age, this worry will disappear. Soccer has a lot of potential to bridge cultural divides in our cities; it’s a language we can all understand.
A great summation of architecture and urban space in New York City. While you’re there, read When TV Became Art, too.
A list of 12 before and after photos of cities — the differences are striking. The list includes Hiroshima, Las Vegas, Dubai, and others.
Via Oobject
