Category Archives: UPPER EAST SIDE

Gone- the Brockaw Mansion

In 1965, the Brokaw Mansion, which stood at 1 East 79th Street, was destroyed to make room for this high-rise apartment building. Continue reading

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Pulling Museum Mile Uptown: A New Home for African Art

She hopes that the museum will bring Africa, long misunderstood as a “dark, distant place,” out of the shadows, she said. Its debut will certainly usher Mrs. Thompson further into the spotlight, a place she may one day inhabit even more prominently depending upon the political future. Continue reading

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Robert A.M. Stern’s Museum of African Art

The Museum of African Art may be patient, but we’re not. So we were pretty excited to come across a set of photos of 1280 Fifth Avenue in the Curbed flickr pool. The forgotten Robert A.M. Stern project at 110th Street consists of 115 luxury condos above the museum — which has spent about 25 years waiting for a permanent home — and construction was supposed be done last year. Continue reading

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John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Three major projects by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Health + Science practice are celebrating important milestones this summer. On August 27th, John Jay College of Criminal Justice will celebrate the topping out of its new 620,000-square-foot expansion. Just last month, the new 290,000-square-foot Women’s Hospital at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center also topped out. And, earlier this summer, excavation began at the site of the Mount Sinai Center for Science and Medicine. Continue reading

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