All articles by Dana Schulz

November 2, 2015

Upper East Side Townhouse by Modernist Pioneer William Lescaze Sells for $16M

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After five long years on the market, the William Lescaze-designed townhouse at 32 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side has found a buyer, according to Curbed. As 6sqft previously reported, Lescaze was a Swiss-born, American architect who is credited with pioneering modernism in America. His personal Midtown East townhouse (the William Lescaze House) is considered the first modernist residence in New York City, built just one year prior to this 1934 uptown commission. The Upper East Side house sold for $12 million in 2008. Starting two years later, it's been on and off the market, ranging from $14 million to $19.5 million, but finally went into contract last week for $15.9 million.
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The Actual Daylight That Daylight Saving Time Saves; Furniture Made of Shopping Carts
November 2, 2015

The Actual Daylight That Daylight Saving Time Saves; Furniture Made of Shopping Carts

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A controversial virtual reality experience simulates the 9/11 attacks from the perspective of someone on the top floors of the World Trade Center. [DNAinfo] How much daylight does daylight saving time save? Find out with this interactive chart. [Quartz] Celebrate Junior’s 65th anniversary tomorrow with 65-cent pieces of cheesecake. [NYDN] This Greenwich Village townhouse was inspired by […]

25 Percent of Subway Station Entrances Are Closed, Worsening Congestion

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November 2, 2015

25 Percent of Subway Station Entrances Are Closed, Worsening Congestion

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There's so much to kvetch about when it comes to the MTA and poor subway service: unprecedented debt, increased ridership that hasn't been matched with increased service and outdated technology to name a few. But here's another to add to the laundry list: closed station entrances. amNY reports today that one out of four subway entrances are closed at a total of 119 stations, which "create bottlenecks that make it difficult to get in and out of increasingly jam-packed stations, while stores miss out on the foot traffic." In total, a whopping 298 staircases are inaccessible, and some closures have been in effect for so many decades that the MTA doesn't even know why they're not in use.
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Mapping the Most Popular Halloween Candy by State
October 31, 2015

Mapping the Most Popular Halloween Candy by State

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6sqft has already brought you a map of what Americans love to eat most by state, but when October rolls around, New Yorkers forget about the avocados (yes, that's our state's favorite food) and move on to sweeter treats. So before you get yourself into a sugar coma today, check out this fun map of the most popular Halloween candy by state (h/t Mashable). Turns out, the most number of states chose candy corn, but Reeses Peanut Butter Cups had the highest number of total votes. New Yorkers, however, have a very strange favorite...
See what it is
October’s 10 Most-Read Stories and This Week’s Features
October 31, 2015

October’s 10 Most-Read Stories and This Week’s Features

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October’s 10 Most-Read Stories Affordable Housing Lottery Launched for Bjarke Ingels’ Epic Pyramid, VIA 57 West New Video Takes Us Inside Anderson Cooper’s Converted Village Firehouse PHOTOS: Go Inside the NYC Subway Cars Dumped in the Atlantic Over a Decade Ago Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ Beachside Home Is Selling for $299,000 October 18th Is […]

Listings Launch for Zaha Hadid’s High Line Condos
October 30, 2015

Listings Launch for Zaha Hadid’s High Line Condos

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Though sales launched earlier this month at Zaha Hadid's curving High Line condo building, her first commission in NYC, there were no public listings. The wait is over, though, as they've just gone live, providing long-anticipated pricing and floorplans. The eleven-story building at 520 West 28th Street in Chelsea will offer 39 two- to five-bedroom homes, all of which take advantage of the starchitect's signature swooping construction. They'll range from $4,950,000 to $50 million for the largest penthouse, but the three residences listed on Corcoran are a $6.4 million two-bedroom unit; a $9.4 million three-bedroom; and a $16 million four-bedroom.
Ogle the floorplans and renderings
$721,000 West Village Apartment Has a Cozy Floorplan With the Kitchen in the Living Room
October 29, 2015

$721,000 West Village Apartment Has a Cozy Floorplan With the Kitchen in the Living Room

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Sure it's not in the seven-figure category, but $721,000 is no drop in the bucket, and that's exactly what this very cozy one-bedroom with the barely-there kitchen smack in the middle of the living room is asking. What it lacks in space and appliances, it makes up for in brick walls and dark-stained maple floors, three closets, and chic decor. The location helps, too; it's on the picturesque "Sex and the City" block at 77 Perry Street and "overlooks and clears the beautiful townhouses across the street with open views reminiscent of a Hopper painting," according to the listing. So, would you trade in your pots and pans for this "rare opportunity to own on the most coveted block in the West Village?"
Decide here
Map Shows Where Our Pumpkins Really Come From
October 29, 2015

Map Shows Where Our Pumpkins Really Come From

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Unfortunately, the pumpkins at Whole Foods don't come with labels like "local" or "wild caught," but the good news is that your Halloween purchase likely comes from nearby. This interactive map from the Washington Post highlights the total acres of pumpkins harvested, by county, in 2012. It was created using data from USDA Agricultural Census and shows that "pumpkins are grown commercially in just about every county in the Northeastern states."
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‘Ghostbusters’ Firehouse Now a Lego Set; Abandoned North Brother Island May Open to Public
October 29, 2015

‘Ghostbusters’ Firehouse Now a Lego Set; Abandoned North Brother Island May Open to Public

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The famous “Ghostbusters’ firehouse has been given the Lego treatment. The 4,634-piece set, which will come with the requisite ghost containment unit and figures of the movie characters, will go for $350. [Tribeca Citizen] Halloween survival guide for adults: what wine to pair Halloween candy with. [Mental Floss] The “windy” history of the Flatiron Building. […]

October 29, 2015

POLL: Would You Like to See the MTA Use This Modern Subway Map?

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Yesterday, 6sqft brought you this modern subway map redesign by Tommi Moilanen. His version keeps the current map’s basic structure, but infuses it with a bit of Massimo Vignelli‘s famous graphic style. Geographically and systemically accurate, Moilanen’s map also uses thick and thin lines to represent express and local service; tints skipped stops a lighter shade; more clearly […]

Animated Video Illustrates the Dire Need for New Hudson River Tunnels
October 29, 2015

Animated Video Illustrates the Dire Need for New Hudson River Tunnels

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People are getting fed up with the century-old, crumbling Hudson River tunnels. One Jersey resident even went so far as to hire an architecture firm to design a sky bridge connecting Jersey City to Battery Park City. But grand visions aside, the state of the infrastructure is serious. To illustrate this point, but make it a bit more simple to digest, the Regional Plan Association has released a three-minute animated video called "Tunnel Trouble" that, as Crain's puts it, "shows a hellish commute for New Jersey Transit and Amtrak riders if new tunnels are not built." The narrator states, "they are the biggest bottleneck in the metro region's transit network, causing delays that ripple up and down the northeast corridor."
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VIDEO: Watch My Micro NY Get Built and Go Inside a Completed Unit
October 28, 2015

VIDEO: Watch My Micro NY Get Built and Go Inside a Completed Unit

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6sqft reported in July that My Micro NY, the city’s first micro apartment complex, was fully stacked, reaching its 120-foot height at 335 East 27th Street on the border of Gramercy and Kips Bay. Then, just last month, it was announced that the $17 million development began accepting applications for its 260- to 360-square-foot affordable studios. Up until now, though, we've only seen renderings of the interiors, but a new trailer from the designers nArchitects takes us on a walk through of a completed unit (h/t Curbed), which, although tiny, is quite bright. The video also shows the entire construction process, beginning with fabrication at the Navy Yard to the units being stacked by crane.
Watch the video here
Detailed Infographic Shows the Ebb and Flow of NYC Skyscraper Construction
October 28, 2015

Detailed Infographic Shows the Ebb and Flow of NYC Skyscraper Construction

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Charts related to skyscrapers typically compare the world's tallest buildings, but a new interactive timeline from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) shows the ebb and flow of skyscraper construction in NYC and how it resembles the country's boom and bust cycles (h/t CityLab). The timeline is part of a larger report called "New York: The Ultimate Skyscraper Laboratory," which also examines the function and location of recent supertall towers going up during today's boom cycle.
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This Website Tells You Who Died in Your House and How
October 27, 2015

This Website Tells You Who Died in Your House and How

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Forget paying to tour a haunted house; find out if you're living in your very own version with this creepy website DiedInHouse.com. According to Forbes, the site can determine whether someone died at a given address and even if a person was murdered, committed suicide, or if there were any arson instances or meth labs there. To arrive at these findings, they use death certificates, news reports, and 130 million police records. And while this is a fun little Halloween experiment, it actually has more serious implications. Statistics show that a death or serious crime in a home can drop its value by up to 30 percent.
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What’s Really in That Pumpkin Spice Latte; NYC Lit Only by Stars
October 27, 2015

What’s Really in That Pumpkin Spice Latte; NYC Lit Only by Stars

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Ever wonder how much actual pumpkin is in that pumpkin spice latte? Here’s the science behind the wildly popular drink. [Business Insider] Ten stunning New York interiors you’ve probably never seen. [Bloomberg] Could giving buses priority at traffic signals improve speed and reliability? [Streetsblog] In French artist Thierry Cohen’s new series “Darkened Cities” we can see […]

October 27, 2015

Look Inside NYC’s Strangely Beautiful Glass and Plastic Recycling Facility

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Each day, the 11-acre Sims Municipal Recycling facility unloads up to 450 tons of waste on a city-owned pier (on what used to be an NYPD impoundment lot) in the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. Though this seems like a dirty job, the process of recycling all this glass and plastic turns out to be strangely beautiful. CityLab recently explored the facility's photogenic quality through Instagram photos and talked to its manager to learn that recycling in NYC is not an urban myth like some people believe. In fact, since 2013, around 7,000 guests have toured the Sims facility.
Get a look at what they saw
The Man Behind the Great Jack-o’-Lantern Blaze; Tour Gracie Mansion’s New Art Collection
October 26, 2015

The Man Behind the Great Jack-o’-Lantern Blaze; Tour Gracie Mansion’s New Art Collection

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In anticipation of its move from its 57-year, landmarked home at the Seagram Building, the Four Seasons restaurant is putting together a book of patrons’ memories. [NYP] Meet the creative director behind the Great Jack-o’-Lantern Blaze, which will feature 7,000 real and foam pumpkins this year. [NYT] Gracie Mansion reopend for public tours this Sunday. […]

Frightgeist Map Shows What the Most Popular Halloween Costume Is in Your City
October 26, 2015

Frightgeist Map Shows What the Most Popular Halloween Costume Is in Your City

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Still up in the air about your Halloween costume, but want to make sure you're not one of 10,000 Donald Trumps wandering around NYC on Saturday? Check out this cool map called Frightgeist that shows what the most popular costumes are in cities across the country. Using Google Trends, the map from Google News Lab pulled the top 500 costume searches to create this handy national- and local-based resource.
Some fun facts from the map
Atlantic Yards’ B2 Tower Employing Anti-Nausea Technology From NASA

B2 Tower photo © Field Condition

October 26, 2015

Atlantic Yards’ B2 Tower Employing Anti-Nausea Technology From NASA

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"A new technology, designed to tame forces that could separate an astronaut’s eyeball from her retina, may also keep the one percent from throwing up," says The Real Deal. They're talking about a fluid harmonic disruptor, a device used during space takeoffs to protect astronauts from violent vibrations, which will be employed by structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti at Forest City Ratner’s B2 BKLYN, the 32-story modular tower at Pacific Park that could definitely succumb to queasy-making swaying and vibrations. The firm will put six water-filled pipes on the roof of the building, making up 0.5 percent of its total mass; then the disruptor will alter how the fluid, and therefore the building, reacts to wind and other vibrations.
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Weekly Highlights: Top Picks From the 6sqft Staff
October 24, 2015

Weekly Highlights: Top Picks From the 6sqft Staff

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Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ Beachside Home Is Selling for $299,000 A Behind the Scenes Look at How SHoP’s Stunning Facade at 111 West 57th Street Will Come to Life Tribeca ‘Suburban’ Mansion With Pool and Three-Car Garage Chops Price to $44.5M SHoP’s Essex Crossing Mega-Market Will Be One of Largest in the Nation You […]

Port Authority Announces Design Competition to Replace Hated Bus Terminal to the Tune of $10B
October 23, 2015

Port Authority Announces Design Competition to Replace Hated Bus Terminal to the Tune of $10B

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The chance to reimagine one of the most loathed buildings in Manhattan certainly must be appealing to designers, so it's likely the Port Authority will receive a lot of submissions for their newly announced international competition to replace the current bus terminal. Crain's reports that "The operator of the nation's busiest bus terminal approved a plan Thursday to move ahead toward replacing the overcrowded, dilapidated 65-year-old facility, with a goal of deciding on a final design by [September 2016]." It's expected that the project will cost between $7 and $10 billion and take several years to complete.
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Tribeca’s Historic Skybridge Listing Officially Hits the Market for $50M
October 23, 2015

Tribeca’s Historic Skybridge Listing Officially Hits the Market for $50M

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Last month, 6sqft found out about the amazing pair of Tribeca listings that includes one of Manhattan's last skybridges, and shortly thereafter we were teased with a floorplan of the property, which spans 9 Jay Street and 67 Hudson #3AB. It was said to be a pocket listing, but today the Wall Street Journal noticed the official public listing, which has the three-story townhouse and one-bedroom apartment set at a combined price of $50 million. What's more surprising than the price being $20 million over initial estimates is the interior photos. Because of the quirky skybridge one would have assumed that the homes were historic, funky, or a combination of both, but they're in fact completely bare and stark.
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