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October is for lovers — of architecture and archives!

October 3, 2012January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 718 Views 0 Comments architects, Four Freedoms Park, JFK Airport

The Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport, pictured above under construction in 1961, is Thursday’s Archtober Building

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The abstract beauty of Robert Moses’ most horrifying idea

November 17, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 2299 Views 3 Comments architects, Lower Manhattan Highway, Robert Moses

This is beautiful because it’s not real: a cross-section of Paul Rudolph’s cross-Manhattan proposal, looking east towards the two approaches

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Podcast Rewind: The Pan Am Building

July 30, 2010November 21, 2018 Bowery Boys 1550 Views 0 Comments architects, Grand Central Terminal, Pan Am Building

A special illustrated version of our podcast on the Pan Am Building (Episode #61) is now available on our NYC

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Little monsters overheads: gazing at New York gargoyles

July 14, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1193 Views 0 Comments architects, Photography

Above: a freaky face hanging from the former mansion of Sinclair Oil tycoon Harry F. Sinclair (today, the Ukrainian Institute

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The Limelight – a church, then a nightclub, now a mall!

May 6, 2010January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 2306 Views 7 Comments architects, Grace Church, Trinity Church

The sanguine days of the Holy Communion, pictured here over 150 years before it would be reconfigured as a shopping

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PODCAST: The Pan Am Building

September 12, 2008November 21, 2018 Bowery Boys 2653 Views 4 Comments architects, Emery Roth, Grand Central Station, Grand Central Terminal, Madison Square Park, Pan Am Building, Park Avenue

Today it’s the Met Life Building. It’s been called the ugliest building in New York City. It sits like a

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Eero Saarinen and his three gifts to New York

July 15, 2008January 13, 2015 Bowery Boys 1304 Views 1 Comment architects, JFK Airport, Lincoln Center

Above: an early photo of Saarinen’s TWA terminal I played hookey from New York City this weekend and journeyed down

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Bowery-Boys-Book-Cover-R6--revised Our first-ever Bowery Boys book, "Adventures in Old New York" is now out in bookstores! A time-traveling journey into a past that lives simultaneously besides the modern city.

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