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(Photo: From left: NYC Municipal Archives; Rebecca Sahn ) |
21. One Astor Place
At Lafayette Street
For years, the Cooper Union husbanded the parking lot at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Lafayette Street, waiting for the right developer. Finally, the school sprang, and somehow the result is the most egregious mistake in Charles Gwathmey’s eminent career.
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(Photo: From left: NYC Municipal Archives; courtesy of David Joseph ) |
22. Hotel Gansevoort
18 Ninth Avenue
Don’t hold Stephen P. Jacobs’s big metal box responsible for destroying the area’s working-class authenticity, or the firefly flash of nightlife. That was going to happen anyway; at least the hotel is an enclave of good design.
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