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The tentative greening of Greater Buffalo was a favorite subject of mine in my early days at gbNYC, mostly because I'm a sucker for underdogs and any good news -- be it about the ultra-moribund Buffalo Bills or an attempt to remake the city as a solar manufacturing hub -- about Greater Buffalo ...
Building/Design
New York
Energy Efficiency
Some blocks get all the history. West 135th Street in Harlem, between 7th Avenue and Lenox, was one of the proudest blocks in the neighborhood during Harlem's glory years. In 1910, the St. Philip's Episcopal Church -- the wealthiest of uptown's black churches during that period -- bought the ...
Building/Design
New York
Housing and Urban Development
What's not to like about a living wall? Where regular walls are (perhaps inevitably) drab and wall-like, a living wall is leafy and generally green-colored and alive. I barely remember what it was like to walk past The Colorado -- a condo building on the Upper East Side a couple ...
Building/Design
Colorado
James Dobson
Nice One, Misha: Baryshnikov Arts Center at 37 Arts Earns LEED Honors for New Jerome Robbins Theater
If you've hung around with artists recently -- or at all -- then you've heard someone say, "this is a tough time for the arts." And while it's pretty much always a tough time for the arts -- that's why they're the arts and not, say, arbitrage -- this is New York, which means that ...
Building/Design
Martin O'Malley
New York's smokers lobby is nowhere near as powerful as, say, the over-the-counter derivatives lobby or bluefin tuna fishery-collapsing industry or whatever, and the city's six-year old ban on smoking in bars and restaurants reflects as much. While we non-smokers who go to bars and restaurants ...
Building/Design
New York
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
We're pretty up front with our pro-Jersey bias here at gbNYC. Stephen and I are both sons of that superfund-y soil, after all, and after several decades of environment-intensive Jersey jokes -- medical waste washes up on your beaches one time and you hear about it forever -- it's kind of ...
Building/Design
New Jersey
Jersey
Energy Efficiency
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
We're pretty up front with our pro-Jersey bias here at gbNYC. Stephen and I are both sons of that superfund-y soil, after all, and after several decades of environment-intensive Jersey jokes -- medical waste washes up on your beaches one time and you hear about it forever -- it's kind of ...
Building/Design
Jersey
New Jersey
Energy Efficiency
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
At the most basic level -- in the way that the sky is blue and Jon Gosselin's fake-tanned skin is orange -- grass and trees and topiary and your other things-that-grow are green. It's tough to explain why all this is, so many years after seventh grade science, but chlorophyll and photosynthesis ...
Building/Design
United States
Not to put Stephen's business all out in the street or anything, but... let me put Stephen's business out in the street for a minute. He's down in Virginia right now, writing out place cards and double-checking catering and generally doing the things that people who are a day or so away from ...
Building/Design
Virginia
Stephen Colbert
Plenty of New Yorkers found reasons to vote against Michael Bloomberg yesterday, although roughly five percent more found a reason to vote for him, and he was elected for his third term as Mayor . (You may have heard as much if you use sites other than gbNYC for your local politics news, which ...
Building/Design
David Paterson
New York
Michael Bloomberg
Out of the top 50 commercial office leases that were signed in Manhattan back in 2007, the 6th largest was secured by advertising and marketing firm Grey Global Group for a new 370,000-square-foot headquarters at L&L Holding Company's 200 Fifth Avenue. (You may recall that for both calendar ...
Building/Design
New York
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Syracuse and Buffalo, by reputation, are the de facto buckles on New York's rust belt. But while those two Western New York cities have shrunken mightily over the past few decades and almost never get any sun, there remain more green bright spots in both than their rusty-brown reputations would ...
Building/Design
New York
We make no great effort to conceal our pro-New Jersey bias here at gbNYC, but it's especially gratifying when a Garden State-based project comes along that would be exciting even if it were not located a short drive -- depending on traffic -- from where Stephen and I grew up. GreenWorks on ...
Building/Design
New Jersey
Jersey
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
Relative to less-clunkily named programs such as LEED and Energy Star, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority -- or NYSERDA, if you're into (relative) brevity -- doesn't get a lot of attention. And yet NYSERDA's recent awarding of its 17th High Performance Building plaque ...
Building/Design
Energy Efficiency
New York
New York City is different. This, for many of us, is what we like about it, the "more" of it all, the fact that we have more of everything -- good, bad, indifferent -- than just about any other city in the United States. All the overage can be a bit much sometimes, but even on the ...
