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altowns home about consulting papers and articles legaltowns feeds posts comments legaltowns new url september 27 2017 by honey berk legaltowns can now be found at http www legaltowns com all new posts will be made at the new url please update your bookmarks posted in uncategorized courtyards alleys and apartments september 22 2017 by honey berk source nypl digital archive i m happy to report that the american conservative in its new urbs feature has just published my article about the land use efficiency of new york s turn of the century apartment houses my piece focuses on the period before zoning although building safety codes did impose some limits on construction with an eye to the simple practical measures such as courtyards and alleyways that builders of the time used to make efficient use of small parcels and to make room for more people to live comfortably in new york city hope you enjoy source nypl digital archive posted in uncategorized spotlight museum at eldridge street september 22 2017 by honey berk incredible the museum at eldridge street located near the base of the manhattan bridge is a restored 1887 synagogue the first house of worship built by eastern european jews in new york city the block on which it is located is now very much chinatown but in the late 19th century it was at the heart of the jewish lower east side the synagogue was almost lost to abandonment in the 1970s but has now been meticulously restored i walked in on a lunch break last week expecting just to look around and take some pictures instead i was lucky to coincide with a scheduled tour with an incredibly knowledgeable docent ester who told the story of the congregation from its founding in the late victorian period through the neighborhood s transition the synagogue s decline and finally the building s beautiful restoration the blue stained glass window is recent the rest of the details are original most of what looks like marble or masonry is actually wood very much worth a visit posted in uncategorized spotlight cities service building update september 14 2017 by honey berk click on the above photo to see my full album my favorite of the city s art deco skyscrapers this soaring pine street tower was built as the headquarters of the cities service company predecessor of citgo the cities service logo a pyramid within a cloverleaf usually black or green in trade dress can be found pervasively worked into the concrete and metal exterior details and the interior details as well designed by architects at clinton russell and holton george the 952 foot tower opened in 1932 last year i posted a batch of pictures that i had taken of the exterior details at ground level and of the tower within the skyline of wall street it is a striking tower sleek and tapered at the top but given the dense cluster of tall buildings that now characterize the neighborhood it is a challenge to find a clear shot of more than its very top fortunately an outside detail above provides a scale model of the complete tower in clean white concrete like the building itself a residential conversion was recently completed which includes a beautiful top to bottom restoration of the landmark skyscraper i doubt the building could have looked much sharper in 1932 when it opened amid the great depression having been on the drawing board before the fortunes of wall street turned dark the redeveloper rose associates has really done an incredible job here i include a number of new pictures of the grand lobby the basement and various stairwells and corridors hope you enjoy i love this building and think you will too posted in lower manhattan spotlights september 11th september 11 2017 by honey berk hard to believe that it has been 16 years since that morning i was in my second year of college at the new school a few lines from a piece that i wrote shortly afterwards mostly just for myself so that i would later be able to remember exactly what i d experienced i went upstairs to class and took a seat my advisor henry was already there getting organized a minute later the second professor showed up a small argument ensued between the two do you know what s going on out there said stuart yes but i think we need to go on with class said henry a lot of people are out there watching we may not have everyone well i m not much for that we should go on with who we have well it s pretty hard not to watch the fucking world trade center is on fire another plane just crashed into the south tower everyone in the room was jarred oh my god some kind of attack oh yeah it s definitely an attack well what do you think i mean it s important but i think what we are doing here is important too that s true i mean poetry isn t the least important thing no definitely not i guess we should go on yes i think that would be the right thing to do later after the class had finally been dismissed i turned left and walked on through the grid of streets up through the warehouses and housing projects beyond ninth avenue i wasn t sure where i was going i just gravitated in what seemed to be the right direction i lived in brooklyn heights that semester but i was walking the opposite way getting back to my room would have involved either a long detour through williamsburg or a trip straight through the scene instead i thought i might have to walk all the way to my uncle s apartment on 207th street and i didn t know if anyone would be home if i did i managed to stay cool headed but i was really unsure of what i should do i kept going north and west getting out of the heart of the city seemed like the main idea at some point it occurred to me that a ferry might be crossing to new jersey so i made my way west to the hudson river if i went back to the town where i had gone to high school i would find someone to put me up overnight it wasn t far away just across the river from the city but it was a different world by that point i was sure that i didn t want to go back to brooklyn there were thousands of people walking up twelfth avenue most of them had walked all the way up from the site people were sort of talking to each other briefly and moving on it was strange you don t usually talk to strangers in a moving crowd but everything was different then normal street smarts seemed useless the ethos of minding your own business and ignoring anything out of the ordinary i knew that would not work anymore but how could you replace it with something else there was a middle aged man in a suit who told me he worked at the world financial center his hair and jacket were covered with gray ash when the first plane smashed into the north tower he began to leave but his boss said in all seriousness that s a world trade center problem this is the world financial center get back to work i laughed and he moved on there s more but it s not really in any shape to be posted maybe one day i ll clean it up and share it here as a single piece of writing posted in lower manhattan spotlight rockaway blues and coney island rain august 27 2017 by honey berk click on the above photo to see my full album just some pictures from a couple of trips to new york city beaches this summer honey and i made it to rockaway beach on an absolutely beautiful day in early august the ocean was about as blue as you could imagine and the beach has been completely remade with white sand and a new boardwalk replacing the one that was destroyed during hurricane sandy the little things in the photos that look like pebbles are actually tiny clams coming in by the thousands that day with each wave then burrowing their way into the sand when the water went out it was really something to see about a week later i wound up on a work related field trip to the coastal parts of brooklyn to observe the progress that my program has made in rebuilding private homes in gerritsen beach sheepshead bay and coney island we were supposed to have a happy hour afterwards on the coney island boardwalk but it was cancelled because of the intermittent but occasionally heavy rain the neighborhood was eerie and abandoned with wet streets and empty sidewalks i thought it was photogenic it s interesting to me how many of the individual artifacts of the coney island my grandparents would have visited are still there nathan s luna park the cyclone and even more interesting from a planner s perspective that this famous seaside spot has never been redeveloped at the end i included just a few pictures of the work that our program is getting done in the sandy affected parts of brooklyn it has been a long process getting to a point where physical progress can been seen in these places everyone who has been involved in since 2013 should be proud of what he or she has done especially the homeowners and tenants who have stuck with it for the long haul posted in building codes late victorian spotlights park lamps and acorns august 26 2017 by honey berk central park lamp 2013 eagle rock acorn a bunch of green acorns just caught my eye while walking in eagle rock park interesting how subtly the shapes of nature were incorporated into the standard forms of traditional 19th century urbanism a lot of the old street lamps look like flowers i think its an artifact of the mainstreaming of certain elements of cultural romanticism by the late victorian period posted in art late victorian shaping the urbanism of victorian america august 25 2017 by honey berk new york city i m happy to report that the american conservative in its new urbs feature has published my article about the key factors that shaped late victorian urbanism in the united states my piece focuses on this period before zoning and explores the physical legal economic and cultural phenomena that drove neighborhood development in the absence of comprehensive plans i chose this period because it has intrigued me for a long time and because so much of the new urbanism of today seems to be imitating the forms of that era without necessarily asking the important questions about the larger context that created them tac deserves credit for taking a lead in discussing the important dynamic between urban form society and sustainable communities here s a nice piece by executive editor lewis mccrary about the walkability of new jersey shore towns many of which i have walked through and many of which have an urban fabric that dates from the same period that my article describes posted in books articles common law urbanism late victorian law planning theory spotlight the 1913 woolworth building august 25 2017 by honey berk click on the above photo to see my full album my office is just across park place from the landmark woolworth building once the world s tallest skyscraper the whimsically gothic tower still dominates the western edge of new york s town green back in the fall i took a guided tour of the lobby which is otherwise off limits which turned out to be a pretty incredible experience here are some pictures would definitely recommend to anyone with an interest in the building itself early skyscrapers tesellation and mosaics the transition from classical to modern architecture or just the history of american business the colors are incredible likewise the masonry and marble photos in my album begin in the main lobby then move to the back of the main floor down into the basement where a lost entrance to the subway can be found sealed off and finally up to the balconies where you can almost touch the tiled ceilings posted in common law urbanism lower manhattan spotlights spotlight 2013 mount laurel exhibit at rutgers july 10 2017 by honey berk click on the above photo to see the full album here are some pictures i took of a special exhibit at the rutgers law library in 2013 focused on the mount laurel doctrine its history and its legacy i just discovered them while i was going through old photos and thought they might be of interest to some readers incidentally i was in john payne s con law 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