The center in Manhattan aims to attract new audiences, as it takes down a wall on Amsterdam Avenue and revamps Damrosch Park.
Category: Restoration and Renovation
-
Coco Chanel’s French Riviera Home Comes Back to Life
The newly restored house still conjures the designer’s unfussy elegance.
-
A Grand Comeback for a Grand Seaside Hotel
San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado, where “Some Like It Hot” was shot and celebrities regularly checked in, has been renovated meticulously, deliberately and very expensively.
-
Inside Faye Toogood’s Hampshire Manor That Reimagines English Country Style
In rural Hampshire, the British designer Faye Toogood has converted a 19th-century manor into a space where modern and traditional interiors coexist.
-
Maryland Mental Hospital With Painful History to Rebuild
The former Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland was once the state’s most crowded psychiatric institution. Pulling off a plan to redevelop it won’t be easy.
-
Upper West Side Theater Is Sold After Governor Allocates $3.5 Million
A nonprofit bought the landmark Metro Theater after receiving financial support from Gov. Kathy Hochul, the State Senate and Steven Spielberg’s foundation.
-
A Beach House in the Philippines, Unlike Anything Else on the Islands
An international dealer of objects and jewelry wanted to refurbish his family’s faraway beach home — but only if he could do it his own way.
-
Brandon Flynn and Jordan Tannahill’s Cinematic East Village Apartment
In Brandon Flynn and the writer Jordan Tannahill’s 750-square-foot East Village apartment, a bold palette is filtered through a minimalist lens.
-
A Peeling 17th-Century Palazzo and the Man Who Was ‘Crazy Enough’ to Buy It
The fabric designer Raffaele Fabrizio found a way to mine the past — both his own and his country’s — by moving into a sprawling Italian villa and (for now, at least) refusing to renovate.
-
Marshall Rose, Who Helped Revive Two New York Institutions, Dies at 88
He was instrumental in revitalizing the New York Public Library and transforming Bryant Park from a dangerous dead zone into a glorious sanctuary.
-
One Fix for Ailing Movie Theaters? Becoming Nonprofits.
As more local movie houses close, residents in smaller towns are forming nonprofits to buy and operate them.