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Baronson, would you get some pics of 74 Trinity Place, please?
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B5vMHtDHOLS/?igshid=1h4ikeere6ocu
Crane coming down
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Does the city own those horrid garages? They must come down.
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This is coming out nice: simply because of the interesting forms, surfaces, colors to behold when viewing the building as a complete whole; or just individual sections. I like the instagram photo above taken by Christina: that is the best angle to photo this building. The other sides lack the glitz and visual variety; fortunately that side is well inside the canyon of the narrow streets of the financial district.
I am a bit puzzled by the astronomical cost/time that was put into saving the red brick facade; I guess the historic significance is valid enough to have made that decision to keep the facade intact. It does look charming: so maybe every thing can not come down to a simple cost/benefit analysis - but keeping that wall cost ‘millions’.
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It is a historic protected mansion from the revolutionary era, so they couldn’t knock it down. It’s history is quite interesting— that used to be the last block before the river so the row houses on Greenwich were desirable because the windows with river breeze would air out the house during the summer months
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From an engineering standpoint it looks very well integrated.
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OH, historic landmark protection!
Well that explains it: the developer did not ‘choose’ to spend millions in construction costs, and added scheduled time to completion for the sake of historic sentimentality or the beautification of the street front - it was mandatory.
I obviously did not do my homework on this project; as I though perhaps this developer took on that project as a matter of choice. I now see why the expense and time was taken - nice results.
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total filler, but it fits in well and will revitalize that rector area along with the plaza redo
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From 6.7.20:
Cool that they saved this but doesn’t really fit…
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The little building is saying “I was here first!”.
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But isn’t that where the 9/11 lights are?
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This is a real architectural preservation oddity: the Broadway side is sort of hidden between that big brick wall and the new building. The other Greenwich Street side looks good and has a real presence; so that one side made all that extra effort/expense worth while - but ‘barely’. 
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Yes, but it never made much sense to put them there anyway. It was just convenient, as far as I know. They can be moved from one random location near Ground Zero to another random location near Ground Zero.
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