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Manifesto (1/27/97)
The State of The City (5/5/01, updated 9/13/01, 9/28/01, 11/22/01, 8/17/02, 12/27/02, 12/13/03, 7/03/04, 1/10/05, 2/18/05, 7/04/05, 9/2/07, 3/13/09, 9/25/17 and 4/8/20)

One World Together At Home, a two-hour video special on the coronavirus and the World Health Organizations with memorable performances in their homes by Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Jennifer Lopez, Stevie Wonder and others hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Charles Colbert and Jimmy Fallon (4/19/20)
Jean Nouvel's "SuperTall" at 53rd West 53rd Street was "decapitated" by Amanda Burden but remains best of city's new "SuperTalls" (4/8/20)
JPMorganChase plans to replace its extremely handsome, 700-foot-high tower at 270 Park Avenue, once the spectacular headquarters of Union Carbide, designed by Skidmore Owings Merrill, and incredibly not a designated city landmark, with a 1,200-foot tower (2/25/18)
Lady Gaga sticks it at the Stevie Wonder Grammy gala (2/18/15)
The Bloomberg Adminstration's plans to signficantly upzone the Midtown East area around Grand Central Terminal is preposterous! (10/8/12)
St. Vincent's Hospital agrees to take $240 million from the Rudins for its "east campus" and $110 million from the North Shore Hospital-LIJ, which will convert the Edward and Theresa O'Toole Center to a medical facility (3/10/11)
Tentative agreement announced for revised development plans for Ground Zero (3/25/10)
St. Vincent's Hospital announces it is closing most of its services after Mt. Sinai Hospital withdraws partnership offer (1/27/10, updated 3/27/10 and 4/7/10 and 4/8/10 to report that Bill Rudin says redevelopment plan for its site is not dead)
Six preservation organizations in the city file amici curiae brief questioning Landmarks Preservation Commission's "hardship" ruling to demolish O'Toole Building at St. Vincent's Hospital (11/5/09)
Landmarks Preservation Commission votes 8 to 3 to approve design of St. Vincent's Hospital planned tower to replace the O'Toole Building (3/13/09, updated 6/10/09 when revised plan for Rudin residential tower is presented, and 7/09/09 to reflect commission's final approval of residential tower shortened to 203 feet)
Aby Rosen presents the Landmarks Preservation with second revised design by Sir Norman Foster for 980 Madison Avenue but it asks him to try again (1/16/09)
Albert C. Ledner and Frederic Schwartz have collaborated on an interesting design of new tower to rise over Ledner's landmarked O'Toole Building that St. Vincent's Hospital wants to demolish (7/16/08, updated 1/7/09 to reflect submission by the hospital to the landmarks commission of a boxy "alternative" to its lenticular, or curved, hospital building plan)
The Second Battle of 980 Madison Avenue (6/29/08)
Dismantle the O'Toole Building at St. Vincent's Hospital and erect its facades like a prow in the triangular block just to its south and then build the new hospital tower. (6/4/08, updated 6/17/08 and 10/30/08 when Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6 to 4 to approve demolition of O'Toole Building)
Frank O. Gehry's revised design for new downtown tower (6/3/08)
The MTA Yards Fiasco: Tishman Speyer and agency at impasse and Tishman Speyer drops Helmut Jahn and now all major Far West Midtown projects appear in limbo (5/9/08)
Preservation Commission ponders 14-story, mid-block building planned at 746 Madison Avenue (1/27/08, updated 6/17/08)
Extell has the best of the five proposals to redevelop the MTA yards on the West Side of Manhattan, although Brookfield has a few good buildings (12/29/07, updated 1/2/08, updated 1/9/08 for criticisms by Hudson Yards advisory community committee, updated 3/26/08 when MTA picks the worse plan, which was submitted by Tishman Speyer, updated 5/9/08 when MTA, incredibly, says it has reached an impasse with Tishman Speyer, which has dropped its plan by Helmut Jahn)
Boldness at last on West 53rd Street: Jean Nouvel's 75-story, mixed-use tower for Hines (11/22/07, updated 3/14/08 and 4/9/08, 4/19/08 and 9/10/09 to reflect City Planning Commission's surprising decision to lower the project's height by 200 feet to 1,050 feet)
Save the Hotel Pennsylvania (10/27/07, updated 10/31/07 to reflect the 6-to-1 vote by the Landmarks Committee of the local community board to recommend that the hotel be designated an official city landmark, and updated 11/8/07 to reflect the vote of the full board to recommend designation, updated 12/10/07 to reflect support for landmark designation by the Historic Districts Council, updated 2/24/08 to reflect decision of landmarks commission not to consider designation, updated 4/8/08 to reflect statement by Vornado that it hopes something good will happen and that Hotel Pennsylvania did better in 2007 than in 2006); updated to reflect the July 14, 2010 approval of the City Planning Commission of Vornado's plan for a 1,190 skyscraper on the site despite the fact that Chair Burden had recently "decapitated" 200 feet over a Jean Nouvel tower a mile north for interfering with the Empire State Building, and also updated to include excepts from a March 1919 article praising the hotel in The Architecture Review and updated 8/13/10 to reflect letter from owner of Empire State Building to City Planning Commission challenging Vornado's environmental impact statement and updated August 25, 2010 to reflect the approval, with the very strong backing of the mayor, of the Vornado plan by the land-use committee of the City Council by a vote of 19 to 1, and updated 9/3/10 to report on Henry J. Stern's column at huffingtonpost.com on Vikki Barbero's very cogent attack on City Council's decision to approve Vornado plan.)
St. Vincent's Hospital plans new hospital in curved tower on site of the intriguing and nautically styled O'Toole Medical Center and residential redevelopment of most of its buildings east of Seventh Avenue (10/14/07, updated 1/1/08 to reflect report by The Villager on "alternative plan" presented by members of the community, updated 2/23/08 and 4/1/08)
980 Madison Avenue: A Very Proper Preservation Battle (11/3/06, updated 1/1/08 and updated 5/14/08 when revised design is published)
The unveiling of the designs for three of the five major towers to be built by Silverstein Properties at Ground Zero (9/26/06)
Frank O. Gehry's Lower Manhattan skyscraper for Forest City Ratner (9/25/06)
Add-On Architecture, Sir Norman Foster's Hearst Building on Eighth Avenue (7/26/06)
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's "electronic welcoming mat" at Lincoln Center is another travesty (6/30/06, updated 6/14/08, updated with pictures 3/27/10 and updated 5/25/10, and updated 6/10/10 reflect closing of new slanting grass roof for repairs and updated 7/30/10 to note Renfro's description of his firm's "striptease" of Alice Tully Hall, and updated 9/2/10 to note Diller's new "blades" and her desire to make the center more inviting than "just something made out of stone")
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's design for Alice Tully Hall and the North Plaza at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts should be aborted (11/27/05, updated 3/20/09, 7/2/09 and 3/27/10 with pictures)
The General Theological Seminary's plans in Chelsea (11/25/05, updated 9/29/07 and 12/3/10)
Sir Norman Foster designs very tall, very slim tower at 610 Lexington Avenue with air rights from Seagram Building (11/23/05)
Three important New York City projects by Enrique Norten on view at the Museum of the City of New York (7/11/05)
David Childs's new design for the Freedom Tower (6/30/05)
Landmark Lunacy: Proposed designation of post-demolition Paterson Silk Building on Union Square (4/4/05)
The unveiling of the new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site (12/20/03)
The 8 Finalist Designs for the World Trade Center Memorial (12/7/03, updated 1/7/04 with announcement of Michael Arad's revised design as the winner)
Central Park at 150 (8/1/03)
The Rape of Huntington Hartford's 2 Columbus Circle (4/5/03, updated 1/8/04, 3/11/05 and 7/16/05)
The Second Group of Official Plans for the World Trade Center site (12/26/02, updated 2/23/03 when Libeskind and Think team designs selected for further refinement)
Searching for universal truths a year after 9/11/01, a symposium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art sponsored by The Virtue Foundation, by Michele Leight (10/17/02)
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation names six new architectural teams for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site and The City Review lists the city's 50 most historical important monuments (10/2/02)
Commiseration on the first anniversary of the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks is led by President Bush (9/11/02)
New York magazine presents plans for the redevelopment of ground zero by seven different architects (9/10/02)
The New York Times Magazine presents its own plan for the redevelopment of ground zero and Lower Manhattan (9/8/02, updated 9/10/02)
A stronger Lower Manhattan is needed, not a new sports stadium in midtown (9/2/02)
The Austrian Cultural Forum designed by Abraham Raimund (8/21/02)
The six new World Trade Center redevelopment schemes (7/17/02, updated 7/27/02, 8/7/02 and 8/17/02)
Which Future for Ground Zero?, a call for a national design competition, by Eli Attia (6/20/02)
Climate Change and the Global City (4/21/02)
The city is about to lose a fine pavilion at the Morgan Library by Bartholomew Voorsanger but it has just gained another one by him at The Asia Society (3/26/02)
The new tower on Eighth Avenue of The New York Times (3/24/02, updated 3/4/07, 2/2/08)
Leadership: Calm at the Helms (10/22/01, updated 12/5/01)
An End to Innocence: The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/12/01, updated 9/13/01, 9/15/01, 9/22/01, 9/28/01, 9/29/01)
An eyewitness account of the World Trade Center attacks (9/30/01)
New York City on December 7, 1941 by Christopher Gray (9/30/01)
Plazas and Privately Owned Public Spaces (12/16/00)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's proposed Frank Gehry project for the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan (9/26/00, updated 11/30/00, updated 12/31/02)
The Battle of Carnegie Hill: The Preservation of an unattractive, one-story Citibank Building at 91st Street and Madison Avenue (9/26/00, updated 3/30/31, 11/23/01, 5/25/02 and 4/2/03)
Alterations To The Rotunda At The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (4/18/00, updated 10/27/00)
The Too-Short Second Avenue Subway (9/21/99, revised 12/5/99)
Trump's As-of-Right Tower Slights The United Nations (9/14/99, updated 9/28/99, 9/11/00, 3/20/04 and 1/8/08)
The Museum of Modern Art Expansion (4/19/98, updated 1/2/12)
The Pedestrian Prerogative (12/26/97, updated 1/13 , 1/14 and 3/11/98)
The Butchered Lobby (11/25/97, updated 3/14/98)
The new Children's Zoo (9/27, updated 11/30/97)
Down To The Sea In Chips (7/18/97, updated 10/10/97, 12/6/97, 1/15/98 and 1/31/98) Look out Las Vegas!
Books & Co. (4/26/97, updated, sadly, 6/2/97 and 7/18/97, 4/13/99 and 5/27/02)
Ellis Island's Future (4/24/97, updated 6/16/97, 9/30/97, 5/28/98 and 1/22/00)
Ferry Portals Let's try one more time in Manhattan (4/20/97, updated 1/13/98)
The New Governors Island (3/28, updated 5/7, 7/18, 12/2, 12/5, 12/6, 12/20/97, 6/19/98, 1/31/99, 9/2/99, 1/5/00 and 4/1/02)
Riverside South Travesty (3/1, updated 10/4/97)
Where's Humpty-Dumpty? The New Coliseum Fiasco (2/8, revised 4/27, 6/7, 7/27 and 9/30/97, 1/31/98 and 7/30/98)
Who's Minding the Store? (1/27/97, revised 8/24/98, 1/3/01, and 2/22/04 and 3/20/04 to reflect remodeling by Louis Vuitton, 3/2/07)

Metal Facades (10/22/09)
Setting The Stage At The Front Door (2/7/09) marquees
Softening the Edges of the City (1/31/08) curved buildings
Why Be Square? (1/24/08) oculi
Future of Skybridges Up In The Air (1/17/08)
Keeping Out The Masses, Keeping In The Few (1/10/08) entrance gates
A Light Touch (1/3/08) hanging lanterns
Cornices Extend Buildings to the Heavens (12/27/07)
Up in Smoke (12/20/07) chimneys
A Brief History of Escutcheons (12/13/07)
The Folly of Addresses (11/27/07)

Criteria (1/27/97)
Introduction (1/27/97)
The Best and the Worst (1/27/97)
Fifth Avenue (5/9/98, updated 12/29/99, 9/11/00)

The Pierre & Sherry Netherland hotels (5/29/98, updated 12/29/07)
The Metropolitan Club (5/30/98, updated 4/1/08)
The Plaza Hotel (5/22/98, updated 3/11/00, 8/15/04, 2/25/05, 10/2/07 on occasion of its centennial celebration, 12/30/07, and reviews of the Oak Room, 2/15/09, and 3/24/10 for second reopening of the Palm Court, and 12/26/10 to note article on superintendent's apartment, and a large food court in the basement with the best pizza in the city and very good Lobster Roll 4/8/20)
The G.M. Building (5/22/98, revised 8/24/98, 6/17/99 and 7/24/99, updated 11/12/99, 6/25/03, 12/20/04, 3/11/05, 10/1/05 and updated 7/13/06 to reflect unfortunate recladding of tower's base and replacement of plaza with the bland Apple store beneath the nice glass Apple cube)
Bergdorf Goodman (5/24/98, updated 12/29/99, 12/25/03 and 8/9/15)
745 Fifth Avenue (5/23/98, revised 8/24/98)
The Crown Building (5/25/98, revised 8/24/98, 3/11/00, and updated 4/8/20 reflect the Oko Group's conversion of the building into an Arman Hotel and 22 condominium apartments)
Tiffany Building (7/24/98, 8/24/20)
Trump Tower (5/23/98, 6/18/99, 7/19/99, 9/27/00, 12/16/00, 2/22/04 to reflect reopening of Asprey store, updated 1/11/08 to reflect Gucci storefront, 8/9/15)
Corning Glass Building at 717 Fifth Avenue (1/9/99, updated 4/22/99)
712 Fifth Avenue (5/23/98, updated 12/16/00)
The Coca-Cola Building at 711 Fifth Avenue (12/31/98)
St. Regis Hotel (5/23/98, revised 8/24/98, 4/18/05, 3/16/06 and 8/9/15)
Peninsula Hotel (6/6/98, updated 5/8/08)
University Club (1/9/99, updated 7/9/18 to comment on its horrorific and abominable replacement of a canopy with a modern and inappropriate entrance marquee)
Takashimaya Building (7/24/98, updated 7/13/2010 to reflect article on its pending sale to Thor Equities that plans to destroy its very elegant Post-Modern facade on the avenue)
689 Fifth Avenue (11/1/98)
St. Thomas Episcopal Church (1/2/99, updated 8/9/15)
666 Fifth Avenue (11/1/98, updated 5/27/02, updated 1/16/09 to reflect Bloomberg article on building's depreciation, updated 8/9/15 to reflect store changes and updated 4/6/18 on reported buyback of Vornado's interest in building that the Kushners had outrageously and obsenely commissioned Zaha Hadid to replace with a SuperTall.)
Cartier's (6/19/98, updated 11/30/03)
Olympic Tower (7/24/98, updated 10/27/98, 3/4/07 and 1/15/08)
St. Patrick's Cathedral (5/23/98)
Rockefeller Center (5/23/98, updated 4/22/99, 12/30/03, 3/11/05, Top of the Rock update 6/30/06, 3/4/07, 1/14/09 and LoLA4/29/12 to reflect admission to Top of the Rock observatory had soared to $25 an adult, and 4/18/20)
Saks Fifth Avenue and the Swiss Bank Tower (12/31/98, updated 3/4/07)
The Swiss Center (formerly the Goelet Building) (12/31/98, updated 1/14/09)
580 Fifth Avenue (1/2/99)
Fred F. French Building (12/31/98, updated 6/6/06)
Former Manufacturers Hanover Bank building at 510 Fifth (12/13/98, updated 11/2/09 to note Curbed.com item on its "big box opportunity," amd 3/10/10 to note New York Post article on Vornado being interested in building and its air-rights and on 11/4/10 to note Ada Louise Huxtable's Wall Street Journal column lamenting the removal of the building's artworks, and 2/1/11 to note Historic Districts Council's testimony in favor of designating building's interior a landmark and 2/16/11 to note the designation of the interior as an official city landmark and 4/20/11 to note commission's approval of Vornado plan to create two new entrances on Fifth Avenue)
500 Fifth Avenue (Salmon Tower) (1/17/99)
New York Public Library (11/1/98, 7/19/99 and updated 12/29/07)
461 Fifth Avenue (6/8/96)
Republic National Bank Building (6/6/98 updated 3/11/00 and 3/4/07)
425 Fifth Avenue (2/2/08)
The Lord & Taylor Building at 424 Fifth Avenue at 38th Street that was acquired by Amazon in 2019 (8/27/20)
420 Fifth Avenue (1/18/99)
The Empire State Building (7/17/20 with info on refurbished observatories)
325 Fifth Avenue (6/29/08)

Madison Avenue (5/24/98)

667 Madison Avenue (11/19/98)
650 Madison Avenue (1/9/99, updated 4/22/99)
590 Madison Avenue (the former IBM Building) (5/30/98, updated 12/16/00, 7/19/03, and 7/10/06 to show how much bamboo has shrunk in the atrium, and 6/15/08 to show even more shrinkage)
The Sony Building (the former A.T.&T. Building) (6/4/98, updated 9/26/00, 12/16/00 and 4/8/20)
535 Madison Avenue (1/17/99, updated 8/9/15)
527 Madison Avenue (1/2/99)
520 Madison Avenue (1/2/99, updated 3/4/07)
The former Look Building at 488 Madison Avenue (12/13/98, updated 7/27/20 when it was landmarked)
The New York Palace Hotel (12/31/98, updated 8/9/15 to reflect facade cleaning)
444 Madison Avenue (1/9/99, updated 6/8/09)
383 Madison Avenue (7/1/02)
Roosevelt Hotel (1/10/99)

Park Avenue (5/24/98)

Trump Park Avenue, formerly the Delmonico Hotel (1/2/99, updated 8/14/03, 8/15/07 and 8/6/09 to show how rooftop additions compromised architectural integrity)
500 Park Avenue (11/21/98)
499 Park Avenue (12/13/98)
Ritz Tower (1/2/99)
450 Park Avenue (11/19/98)
432 Park (4/17/20)
Seagram Building (11/1/98, updated 4/28/03, 3/28/06 and 7/2/20)
Lever House (11/1/98, updated 3/28/06)
Racquet & Tennis Club and Park Avenue Plaza (1/2/99)
345 Park Avenue (1/2/99)
Waldorf Astoria Hotel (11/1/98, updated 12/25/03, 12/10/07, 2/16/09 and 6/11/19 when Anbang announced its renovation will have 375 condo apartments and 350 hotel rooms)
270 Park Avenue (1/9/99, updated 7/19/03 and 4/18/18)
230 Park Avenue, The Helmsley Building (6/8/98, updated 1/6/08)
The Metlife Building (the former Pan Am Building) (6/13/98, updated 10/24/01 and 7/19/03)
Grand Central Terminal (11/1/98, updated 7/31/99 and 7/20/03)
45 Park Avenue (2/8/08)

Lexington Avenue (5/25/98)

The Chrysler Building (11/1/98, updated 6/17/99, 7/19/99, 9/11/00 and 7/19/03)
425 Lexington Avenue (6/19/98)
The Park Avenue Atrium (12/31/98)
The New York Marriott East Side Hotel (formerly Shelton Hotel) (1/10/99)
570 Lexington Avenue (11/1/98)
The Metropolitan Hotel (formerly the Loew's New York Hotel and originally the Summit Hotel) (1/17/99)
599 Lexington Avenue (11/19/98, updated 12/16/00 and 3/4/07)
610 Lexington Avenue (11/25/05)
Citicorp Center (11/18/98, updated 12/16/00 and 3/54/07)
One Beacon Court at 151 East 58th Street (1/31/08)
1 International Plaza at 750 Lexington Avenue (1/2/99)

The Avenue of the Americas (12/13/98)

The CBS Building (12/31/98)
The New York Hilton Hotel (1/2/99)
1325 Avenue of the Americas tower and Hilton expansion (1/2/99)
Time-Life Building (1/2/99)
The "new" McGraw-Hill Building (1/2/99)
Americas Tower at 1177 Avenue of the Americas (1/2/99)

57th Street (1/9/99, updated 12/29/99)

Parc Vendome complex at 340 and 350 West 57th Street and 333 and 353 West 56th Street (4/5/08)
Central Park Place at 301 West 57th Street (4/24/08)
Carnegie Hall and Carnegie Hall Tower (1/9/99, updated 7/19/03 and 12/24/07 to reflect plan to redevelop historic studios atop the concert hall and controversy over the design of the expansion by son-in-law of Sanford Weill and update in New York Magazine (1/2/08) and hearing by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Carnegie Hall's intention to convert these very special and very unusual and very memorable spaces to routine classrooms and offices and the like is philistine and completely unnecessary (6/16/09) and updated 8/3/10 to note that the last two residents of the artists' studios have to leave by August 31, 2010
Metropolitan Tower (1/9/99)
29 West 57th Street (1/10/99)
The Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street (1/10/99 and 12/25/03)
1 East 57th Street (1/27/97, updated 8/24/98, 12/29/99 and 7/31/02)
Fuller Building at 41 East 57th Street (1/10/99, updated 11/1/05)
Four Seasons Hotel at 51 East 57th Street (1/10/99, updated 3/22/04 and 3/4/07)
The Galleria at 115 East 57th Street (1/14/99)
135 East 57th Street (1/14/99, updated 12/16/00)
Central Park Tower at 217 West 57^th Street (8/8/23)
330 East 57th Street (7/20/09)

The tower planned for 175 Park Avenue, just to the east of Grand Central Terminal, will be one of the tallest in the city and will substantially block vistas of the Chrysler Building from the west (7/22/21)

§ The rakish "SuperTall" at One Vanderbilt Avenue obscures some vistas of The Chrysler Building and its base looks like Jaws trying to swallow Grand Central Terminal (7/11/21)

500 Fifth Avenue (Salmon Tower) (1/17/99)
New York Public Library (11/1/98, 7/19/99 and updated 12/29/07)
Grand Central Terminal (11/1/98, updated 7/31/99, 7/20/03, and 4/18/18)
The Socony-Mobil Building at 200 East 42nd Street (9/5/09)
The Chrysler Building (11/1/98, updated 6/17/99, 7/19/99, 9/11/00 and 7/19/03)
The Chanin Building (4/18/18)

20 Park Avenue (10/8/10)

Introduction to Central Park South (3/6/04)
Time Warner Center and Columbus Circle (3/6/04, updated 12/30/04 and 10/17/20)
240 Central Park South (3/6/04)
The Gainsborough at 222 Central Park South (3/6/04)
220 Central Park South (3/6/04, updated 12/22/10 to note that some tenants have accepted buyouts from Vornado Realty Trust and The Clarett Group, topped out in 2019, 4/11/20)
210 Central Park South (3/6/04)
200 Central Park South (3/6/04, updated 3/05/07)
The New York Athletic Club at 180 Central Park South (3/6/04)
Essex House at 160 Central Park South (3/6/04, updated 3/2/06)
Hampshire House at 150 Central Park South (3/6/04)
128 Central Park South (3/6/04)
Berkeley House at 120 Central Park South (3/6/04)
116 Central Park South (3/6/04)
110 Central Park South (formerly the Intercontinental Hotel) (3/6/04, updated 5/25/04 and 6/14/08)
Trump Park at 106 Central Park South (3/6/04)
Trump Park East at 100 Central Park South (3/6/04)
The Ritz Carlton Hotel at 50 Central Park South (3/6/04, updated 6/14/08)
40 Central Park South (3/6/04)
The Park Lane Hotel at 36 Central Park South (3/6/04)
24 Central Park South (3/6/04)
The Plaza Hotel at Grand Army Plaza (3/11/00, updated 8/16/07)

Introduction (3/20/04)
4 Sutton Place (3/20/04)
25 Sutton Place (3/20/04)
30 Sutton Place (3/20/04)
35 Sutton Place (3/20/04)
40 Sutton Place (4/03/09)
1 Sutton Place South (3/20/04, 8/16/07, and 2/5/11)
2 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
14 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
20 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
Cannon Point North at 25 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
36 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
Cannon Point South at 45 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
50 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
60 Sutton Place South (3/20/04)
River Tower at 420 East 54th Street (4/2/04)
1 Beekman Place (3/20/04)
River Court at 429 East 52nd Street (4/02/04)
River House at 435 East 52nd Street (3/20/04, updated 3/24/10 to reflect article in The New York Observer describing it as a "has-been")
Southgate complex at 400, 414, 424 and 434 East 52nd Street and 433 East 51st Street (3/30/04)
444 East 52nd Street (3/30/04)
The Campanile at 450 East 52nd Street (3/30/04)
Beekman Terrace at 455 East 51st Street (3/31/04)
Beekman Tower Hotel at 3 Mitchell Place (3/30/04)
860 United Nations Plaza (3/28/04)

Introduction (3/12/00, updated 12/29/07)
Fifth Avenue

Sherry-Netherland Hotel (5/29/98)
The Metropolitan Club (5/30/98)
Pierre Hotel (5/29/98, updated 12/29/07)
800 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
The Knickerbocker Club at 2 East 62nd Street (8/23/02)
810 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
812 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
817 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 1/6/08)
820 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 4/25/08)
825 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
828 Fifth Avenue, the former Edward Berwind house (9/27/02)
834 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 12/21/06 to note Rupert Murdoch's purchase of the penthouse, 9/29/07 and 12/30/07)
838 Fifth Avenue (6/9/09)
Children's Zoo (11/30/97)
Congregation Emanu-El (8/21/02)
4 East 66th Street (1/19/02)
2 East 67th Street (1/19/02)
857 Fifth Avenue (12/30/07)
860 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
870 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
875 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
880 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
2 East 70th Street (1/19/02)
900 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 11/20/08)
907 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 7/31/10 to note Daily News article on Huguette Clark, a 104-year-old heiress who owns a 42-room apartment in the building)
910 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
920 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
923 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
927 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 12/11/04 over the "eviction" of Pale Male, a red-tail hawk)
930 Fifth Avenue (4/21/09)
936 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
944 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
The Commonwealth Fund Building at 1 East 75th Street (8/26/02)
945 Fifth Avenue (6/16/09)
950 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 8/4/07)
952 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
956 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
960 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
965 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
969 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
The New York University Institute of Fine Arts at 1 East 78th Street (8/26/02)
The two Stanford White mansions at 972 and 973 Fifth Avenue (8/27/02)
The Ukrainian Institute at 2 East 79th Street (8/26/02)
980 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
985 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
988 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
990 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
991 Fifth Avenue, the American Irish Historical Society (12/28/20)
993 Fifth Avenue (2/8/08)
995 Fifth Avenue, the former Stanhope Hotel (2/8/08)
998 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 5/31/03, 12/24/07 and 7/9/18 to insert history of its cornice restoration)
1001 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (5/13/99)
1009 Fifth Avenue (8/26/02, updated 1/15/09, updated to reflect its purchase by Carlos Slim for about $44 million)
1010 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1016 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1020 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 8/15/07)
1025 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1030 Fifth Avenue (4/4/11)
1035 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1040 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1045 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1048 Fifth Avenue, the Neue Gallery (12/28/20)
1049 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1050 Fifth Avenue (4/27/08)
1056 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1060 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 12/10/07)
1067 Fifth Avenue (2/2/08)
2 East 88th Street (1/19/02)
1080 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 3/20/09 to reflect addition of large curved window on sidestreet)
Church of the Heavenly Rest (8/22/02)
The National Design Museum, originally Andrew Carnegie residence at 2 East 91st Street (8/27/02)
The Convent of the Sacred Heart School, formerly the Otto Kahn mansion (8/26/02)
1107 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 6/14/08)
The Jewish Museum at 1109 Fifth Avenue (8/26/02)
1115 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1120 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1125 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1130 Fifth Avenue, the former Willard Straight mansion (8/26/02)
1133 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1136 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02, updated 2/3/18)
1148 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1150 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1158 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1165 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
1170 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
The Guggenheim Pavilion of Mount Sinai Hospital at 1190 Fifth Avenue (1/26/21)
1200 Fifth Avenue (1/26/21)
1215 Fifth Avenue (1/19/02)
Museum of The City of York at 1220 Fifth Avenue (1/28/21)
Museum of El Barrio at 1230 Fifth Avenue (1/30/21)
1255 Fifth Avenue (4/03/09)

680 Madison Avenue (12/20/08, updated 10/26/10 to note its full conversion to rental apartments by new owners)
The Hermès Store, originally the Louis Sherry Building, at 691 Madison Avenue (8/27/02)
The Leonori at 26 East 63rd Street (9/7/02)
The Verona at 32 East 64th Street (9/03/02)
Tower proposed at 746 Madison Avenue (1/28/08)
27 East 65th Street (9/07/02, updated 7/5/04)
45 East 66th Street (9/03/02)
15 East 69th Street (9/07/02)
St. James Episcopal Church at 866 Madison Avenue at 71st Street
The Ralph Lauren store, originally the Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo residence, at 867 Madison Avenue (8/27/02)
888 Madison Avenue at 72nd Street, the Ralph Lauren Women's Flagship in Manhattan (12/15/20)
19 East 72nd Street (9/3/02)
31 East 72nd Street (9/07/02)
The Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church at 73rd Street (8/27/02)
20 East 74th Street (12/17/20)
14 East 75th Street (9/21/02, 12/17/20)
Whitney Museum of American Art (10/19/10)
30 East 76th Street (9/21/02, 12/17/20)
980 Madison Avenue, the former Parke-Bernet Galleries Building (12/25/20)
Hotel Carlyle at 35 East 76th Street (8/28/02)
The Mark Hotel at 25 West 77th Street (1/3/21)
Carlyle House at 50 East 77th Street (9/04/02)
Charles House at 40 East 78th Street (9/07/02)
31 East 79th Street (9/03/02)
40 East 80th Street (9/07/02)
45 East 80th Street (9/21/02)
La Residence at 1080 Madison Avenue (9/07/02)
25 East 83rd Street (9/23/02)
30 East 85th Street (9/03/02)
35 East 85th Street (9/09/02)
12 East 86th Street (9/03/02)
25 East 86th Street (9/09/02)
49 East 86th Street (9/21/02)
21 East 87th Street (9/07/02)
19 East 88th Street (9/09/02)
17 East 89th Street (9/21/02)
Graham House at 22 East 89th Street (9/23/02)
45 East 89th Street (9/04/02)
14 East 90th Street (4/5/11)
21 East 90th Street (9/04/02)
15 East 91st Street (9/21/02)
47 East 91st Street (1/11/20)
Carnegie Hill Tower at 40 East 94th Street (9/23/02)
Squadron A Armory ruins and Hunter College High School (9/26/02)
The Queenston at 16 East 96th Street (1/11/20)
21 East 96th Street (1/11/20)
Mount Sinai Hospital (1/20/20)

510 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
515 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 1/14/08)
Christ Church at 520 Park Avenue (8/22/02)
520 Park Avenue (12/14/20)
521 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
525 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
535 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
550 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
555 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
563 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
The Colony Club at 564 Park Avenue (8/23/02)
565 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
570 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
The Beekman at 575 Park Avenue (6/02/09)
580 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
Third Church of Christ, Scientist at 583 Park Avenue (8/23/02, updated 12/1/10 for ruling by U. S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholding church's right to lease its space for catering)
603 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
610 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 1/8/08)
625 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
630 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
635 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
640 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
650 Park Avenue (4/3/11)
The Seventh Regiment Armory at 643 Park Avenue (8/23/02)
655 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
660 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
The Council on Foreign Relations at 58 East 68th Street (8/27/02)
Hunter College at 695 Park Avenue (8/26/02)
The Union Club at 701 Park Avenue (8/27/02)
710 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
715 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
720 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
Asia Society (12/25/20)
730 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
733 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
737 Park Avenue (4/18/09)
740 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 8/04/07)
750 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
770 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
775 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
778 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 8/04/07 and 2/6/09)
784 Park Avenue (4/1/11)
785 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
791 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
799 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
812 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
815 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
820 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
823 Park Avenue (6/2/09)
829 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
830 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
840 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
850 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
860 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
863 Park Avenue (8/20/08)
875 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
876 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
885 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
888 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
895 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
898 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
900 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
910 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
911 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
925 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
929 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
930 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
935 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
940 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 12/30/07)
941 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 4/21/11 to note Tom Brokaw selling 10-room apartment and other notable residents)
944 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
950 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
955 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
960 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
969 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
970 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
975 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
983 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
993 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1000 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1001 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
Park Avenue Christian Church (8/22/02)
1021 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1025 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1036 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1040 Park Avenue (7/27/02, updated 12/28/07)
1045 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1049 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1050 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1060 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1065 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1070 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1075 Park Avenue (7/27/02, 10/22/20)
1088 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1095 Park Avenue (7/27/02, 10/22/20)
1100 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1105 Park Avenue (7/27/02, 10/22/20)
1111 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1120 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1125 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1130 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1133 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
Brick Presbyterian Church (8/22/02, 10/21/20)
1150 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
The Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (formerly the George F. Baker Jr. residence) 8/23/02)
1155 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1165 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1172 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1185 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
Squadron A Armory ruins and Hunter High School (9/26/02)
1192 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1199 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1220 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1230 Park Avenue (7/27/02)
1235 Park Avenue (7/27/02)

Third Avenue

205 East 59th Street (2/2/08)
The Savoy at 200 East 61st Street (4/03/04)
Trump Plaza at 167 East 61st Street (4/03/04)
The Royale at 188 East 64th Street (4/03/04)
The Phoenix at 160 East 65th Street (4/03/04)
The Chatham at 181 East 65th Street (5/9/08, updated 4/5/11)
Bristol Plaza at 200 East 65th Street (4/03/04)
Manhattan House at 200 East 66th Street (4/03/04, updated 10/18/07)
Trump Palace at 200 East 69th Street (4/03/04, updated 1/6/08)
The Fairfax at 201 East 69th Street (4/07/04)
Trafalgar House at 180 East 70th Street (4/03/04)
Tower East at 190 East 72nd Street (4/03/04)
The Siena at 188 East 76th Street (4/03/04)
The Empire at 188 East 78th Street (5/9/08)
The Richmond at 201 East 80th Street (4/07/04)
The Park Lane at 185 East 85th Street (4/06/04. updated 12/1/10 for controversy over Shake Shack's alley)
The Colorado at 201 East 86th Street (4/07/04)
The Gotham at 170 East 87th Street (4/03/04)
200 East 87th Street (2/2/08)
The Claridge House at 201 East 87th Street (4/07/04)
The Metropolitan at 181 East 90th Street (2/2/08)
200 East 90th Street (4/07/04)
Ruppert & Yorkville Towers (4/11/04)
Carnegie Park at 200 East 94th Street (4/07/04)
The Normandie Court at 205-235 East 95th Street (4/06/04)
The Monterey at 175 East 96th Street (4/06/04)

The Brittany at 1775 York Avenue (12/20/08)
The Barclay at 1755 York Avenue (12/20/08)
The Hamilton at 1735 York Avenue (12/20/08)
Gracie Plaza at 1725 York Avenue (12/20/08)
The Andover at 1675 York Avenue (12/20/08)
River's Bend at 501 East 87th Street (12/20/08)
The Cambridge at 500 East 85th Street (12/20/08)
The Cielo at 450 East 83rd Street (12/20/08)
The Pavilion at 500 East 77th Street (12/20/08)
The Stratford at 1385 York Avenue (12/20/08)
The Somerset at 1365 York Avenue (12/20/08)

East End Avenue area introduction (3/28/04, updated 9/2/07)
1 East End Avenue (3/28/04, updated 9/2/07)
10 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
25 East End Avenue (9/4/07)
33 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
45 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
52 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
55 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
60 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
The Brearley School at 610 East 83rd Street (3/31/04, updated 1/22/08)
90 East End Avenue (3/28/04, updated 1/22/08)
The Chapin School at 100 East End Avenue (4/3/09)
110 East End Avenue (4/3/09)
120 East End Avenue (3/28/04, updated 4/25/08)
130 East End Avenue (4/3/09)
170 East End Avenue (2/26/08, updated 4/03/09)
180 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
200 East End Avenue (3/28/04)
Gracie Mansion (3/28/04)
1 Gracie Square (3/28/04)
7 Gracie Square (3/28/04)
10 Gracie Square (3/28/04, updated 2/01/06)

Introduction (7/27/01, updated 3/4/07)

Central Park West introduction (2/17/04)
Trump International Hotel & Tower (2/17/04, updated 12/30/07)
Fifteen Central Park West (6/10/07, updated 8/18/07, 9/29/07, updated 12/30/07 and 11/9/10)
The Century at 25 Central Park West (2/17/04, updated 6/10/10 reflect Community Board 7 committee approval of plan for wine bar)
The Ethical Culture Society Hall and School (2/17/04)
Harperley Hall at 41 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The Prásáda at 50 Central Park West (2/17/04)
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church at 3 West 65th Street (3/20/04)
55 Central Park West (2/17/04)
2 West 67th Street (2/17/04)
65 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The Second Church of Christ, Scientist at 77 Central Park West (2/17/04)
80 Central Park West (2/17/04)
88 Central Park West (3/20/04, updated 2/15/09 to note that Sting placed on the market the duplex apartment once owned by Billy Joel for $26 million)
91 Central Park West (2/17/04)
Congregation Shearith Israel at 8 West 70th Street (2/17/04)
101 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The Majestic at 115 Central Park West (2/17/04, updated 8/15/07, updated 3/10/10 to note that Conan O'Brien has listed his duplex apartment there for sale for $29.5 million)
The Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street (2/17/04, updated 3/4/07)
The Langham at 135 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The San Remo at 145 Central Park West (2/17/04, updated 3/4/07)
The Fourth Universalist Society at 160 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The New York Historical Society (3/9/04, 11/1/06, and decision to not add tower 7/8/08)
The American Museum of Natural History (6/09/06)
The Beresford at 211 Central Park West (2/17/04, updated 3/4/07 and 9/29/07)
225 Central Park West (2/17/04)
239 Central Park West (10/12/09)
Rossleigh Court and Orwell House at 1 West 85th Street and 257 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The White House at 262 Central Park West (2/17/04)
279 Central Park West (2/17/04, 10/21/20)
The St. Urban at 285 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The Eldorado at 300 Central Park West (2/17/04, updated 12/30/07, updated 6/16/10 reflect price cuts on Moby's penthouse, updated 7/19/10 for William Glaberson article about family feud in apartment 9B)
The Brockford at 315 Central Park West (4/19/09)
The Ardsley at 320 Central Park West (2/17/04, 2/6/11)
The Cherbourg at 322 Central Park West (10/21/20)
327 Central Park West (4/19/09)
The Turin at 333 Central Park West (5/5/09)
336 Central Park West (2/17/04)
353 Central Park West (2/17/04)
The Olmstead at 382 Central Park West (2/17/04)
CPW Condos at 392 Central Park West (2/17/04)
First Church of Christ, Scientist at 1 West 96th Street (2/17/04, updated 3/28/04 to reflect its negotiations with the Crenshaw Christian Center)
The Braender at 418 Central Park West (4/20/09)
444 Central Park West (4/19/09)
455 Central Park West, the former New York Cancer Hospital and the former Towers Nursing Home (9/22/10)
The Warner at 467 Central Park West (4/19/09)

West-Park Presbyterian Church and 165 West 86th Street (7/20/09)

Introduction to Lincoln Center district (10/19/20)
30 Lincoln Plaza (1/12/09)
1 Lincoln Plaza (1/12/09)
Park Laurel (6/20/09)
Fordham University (6/20/09)
The Alfred at 161 East 61st Street (6/20/09)
Grand Tier at 1930 Broadway (1/12/09)
One Lincoln Square at 150 Columbus Avenue (2/29/04, updated 9/1/10 on report that Century 21 will replace Barnes & Noble store)
Grand Millennium at 1965 Broadway (2/29/04)
Park Millennium at 111 West 67th Street (1/10/09)
3 Lincoln Center Plaza (1/10/09)
2 Lincoln Plaza (1/10/09)
The Sofia at 43 West 61st Street (1/10/09)
The Adagio at 243 West 60th Street (1/10/09)
Harkness at 61 West 62nd Street (1/10/09)
Element at 555 West 59th Street (7/20/09)

The Bel Canto at 1991 Broadway (2/29/04)
The Coronado at 155 West 70th Street (2/29/04)
The Copley at 2000 Broadway (2/29/04)
The Nevada at 2025 Broadway (2/29/04)
The Dorilton at 171 West 71st Street (2/29/04)
2075 Broadway (1/27/08)
The Alexandria at 201 West 72nd Street (2/29/04)
The Apple Bank Building at 2112 Broadway (6/21/09)
The Ansonia at 2107 Broadway (2/29/04)
The Astor at 235 West 75th Street (4/24/09)
Belleclaire Hotel at 250 West 77th Street (4/2/04)
The Apthorp at 2207 Broadway (2/29/04, updated 3/8/07, 1/14/08, 12/16/08, 7/7/09, 3/10/10 when city inspectors go hunting for lead and asbestos and 8/13/10 when closings begin but lender wants sponsors to use a "lockbox")
221 West 82nd Street and 222 West 83rd Street (7/1/09)
The Bromley at 225 West 83rd Street (2/29/04)
The Opera at 2166 Broadway (10/16/20)
The Broadway at 2250 Broadway (2/29/04)
Bretton Hall at 2350 Broadway (2/29/04, updated 2/2/08)
The Boulevard at 2373 Broadway (2/29/04)
The Belnord at 225 West 86th Street (2/29/04, updated 12/28/07, updated 9/18/08 for centennial party)
Astor Court at 205 West 89th Street and 210 West 90th Street (4/4/11)
The New West at 250 West 90th Street (2/29/04)
The Cornwall at 255 West 90th Street (4/18/04, updated 8/17/07)
The Princeton at 215 West 95th Street (2/29/04)
The Columbia at 275 West 96th Street (2/29/04)
The Sabrina at 241 West 97th Street (6/21/09)
The Metro Theater (2/1/11)
Ariel East at 2628 Broadway (6/21/09)

West End Avenue Introduction (6/27/09)
10 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
101 West End Avenue (6/28/09)
75 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
270 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
272 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
Schwab House at 285 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
290 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
300 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
325 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
330 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
333 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
365 West End Avenue (7/19/09)
375 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
400 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The New Century at 401 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
411 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
West River House at 424 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
440 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
450 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The Umbria at 465 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
470 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
490 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
505 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
525 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The Sexton at 530 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The Florence at 545 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
565 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
580 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
588 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
590 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
595 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
599 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
600 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
601 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
607 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The Evanston at 610 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
612 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
617 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
639 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
640 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
645 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
650 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
666 West End Avenue (6/27/09, updated 7/19/10 to note its acquisition by Laurence Gluck and Moshe Azogui for $72 million)
670 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
675 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
677 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
685 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
749 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The Paris at 752 West End Avenue (7/27/09)
755 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
760 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
771 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
780 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
782 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
789 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
800 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
801 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
825 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
845 West End Avenue (6/4/10)
855 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
875 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
878 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
885 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
890 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
895 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
905 West End Avenue (6/27/09)
The Cleburne at 924 West End Avenue (6/28/09)

Introduction (4/6/20)
5 Riverside Drive (6/23/20)
22 Riverside Drive (6/23/20)
33 Riverside Drive (6/23/20)
37 Riverside Drive (6/24/20)
50 Riverside Drive (6/24/20)
52 Riverside Drive (6/24/20)
60 Riverside Drive (6/23/20)
90 Riverside Drive (6/25/20)
98 Riverside Drive (7/19/09)
100 Riverside Drive (6/25/20)
110 Riverside Drive (6/25/20)
131 Riverside Drive (6/25/20)
The Clarendon at 137 Riverside Drive (6/25/20)
175 Riverside Drive (6/27/20)
190 Riverside Drive (7/17/20)
Chatillion at 214 Riverside Drive (7/17/20)
222 Riverside Drive (7/17/20)
The Cliff Dwellers' Apartment House at 243 Riverside Drive (7/19/09)
244 Riverside Drive (7/19/20)
258 Riverside Drive The Peter Stuyvesant (7/19/20)
265 Riverside Drive (7/19/20)
299 Riverside Drive (10/6/20)
300 Riverside Drive (10/6/20)
320 Riverside Drive (10/6/20)
325 Riverside Drive (10/6/20)
The Hendrik Hudson at 380 Riverside (8/31/09)
The Strathmore at 404 Riverside Drive (10/8/20)
The Cliff Haven at 417 Riverside Drive (10/9/20)
The Hamilton at 420 Riverside Drive (10/9/20)
The Riverside Church (10/15/20)
Mira Mar at 452 Riverside Drive (10/8/20)

Central Park South

Chelsea Market at 85 Ninth Avenue (4/27/08, updated 3/24/11)
The Porter House at 366 West 15th Street (5/1/08, updated 4/16/11)
White at 650 Avenue of the Americas (5/1/08)
O'Neill Building at 655 Avenue of the Americas (4/27/08)
Caledonia at 450 West 17th Street (4/27/08)
Slate at 163 West 18th Street (7/20/09)
Yves at 166 West 18th Street (7/26/09)
459 West 18th Street, The Onyx (7/26/09, updated 4/16/11)
Dance Building at 217 West 19th Street (4/27/08)
520 West 19th Street by Annabelle Selldorf (4/27/08, updated 4/16/11)
Metal Shutter Houses at 524 West 19th Street by Shigeru Ban (4/27/08, updated 4/16/11)
Prima at 130 West 20th Street (7/20/09)
Indigo at 125 West 21st Street (7/20/09)
General Theological Seminary (11/25/05, updated 9/29/07)
High Line 519 at 519 West 23rd Street by Lindy Roy (4/27/08)
HL23 at 517 West 23rd Street by Neil Denari (4/27/08, updated 4/16/11)
Vesta 24 at 231 Tenth Avenue by Garrett Gourlay (4/27/08)
245 Tenth Avenue by Delle Valle Bernheimer (4/27/08, updated 4/11/11)
Chelsea Stratus at 101 West 24th Street (4/27/08)
100 Eleventh Avenue by Jean Nouvel (4/27/08, updated 3/27/10 and 4/16/11)
200 Eleventh Avenue by Annabelle Selldorf (4/27/08)
Chelsea Mercantile at 252 Seventh Avenue (4/27/08)

141 Fifth Avenue (7/20/09)

1 Lexington Avenue (4/7/11)

One Astor Place on Broadway (8/24/09)

445 Lafayette Street (10/14/09)

Introduction (3/13/09)
350 West Broadway (3//13/09)
30 Crosby Street (3/13/09)
40 Mercer Street (3/13/09)
One Kenmare Street (3/13/09)
Machinery Exchange at 136 Baxter Street (7/20/09)

Truffles at 453 Desbrosses Street (7/20/09)
Zinc at 475 Greenwich Street (7/20/09)
The Powell Building at 105 Hudson Street (7/29/09)
TriBeCa Space at 25 Murray Street (7/26/09)
56 Leonard Street - a shimmy-shimmy shake tower (8/24/09)
2 North Moore Street sold for $24 million (6/10/10)

One Chase Manhattan Plaza (8/5/09)
20 Exchange Place (1/4/09)
20 Pine Street (1/4/09)
70 Pine Street (1/4/09)
15 Broad Street (1/4/09)
55 Liberty Street (1/4/09)
1 Wall Street Court (1/4/09)
100 Maiden Lane (1/4/09)
90 West Street (1/19/09)
99 John Street (7/20/09)
William Beaver Building at 15 William Street (7/24/09)

15 Park Row (1/4/09)
10 Barclay Street (1/4/09)

1 Wall Street (1/26/09)
14 Wall Street (1/4/09)
37 Wall Street (1/4/09)
45 Wall Street (1/4/09)
55 Wall Street (1/4/09)
The Crest at 63 Wall Street (1/4/09)
75 Wall Street (1/4/09)
95 Wall Street (1/4/09)

The former Cunard Building at 25 Broadway (1/26/09)
Trinity Church at Wall Street (1/26/09)
1 Wall Street (1/26/09)
71 Broadway (1/4/09)

200 Water Street (7/26/09)

Downtown Brooklyn
Williamsburgh

· What New York is missing

"Tall Buildings + Urban Habitat, Volume 3," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, 2019, Changha Hua Center Phase II in China, Leeza SOHO by Zaha Hadid in Beijing, Suzhou IFS in China, Tiajin CTF in China, 53 West 53rd Street by Jean Nouvel, ARO in New York by CetraRuddy, Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, White Tree in Montpellier and Brunel Building in London (11/17/20)
"Tall Buildings + Urban Habitat, Volume 2" Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, 2018, Morpheus in Macao by Zaha Hadid Architects, Duo in Singapore by Buro Ole Scheeren, Baidu Headquarters in Shenzhen, China by CCDI Group, Arte S in Penang, Malaysia by Spark Architects, 888 Boylston Street in Boston by FXCollaborative, Le Architecture in Taipei by Aedas. and Harbour Plaza in Toronto by Alliance (9/17/20)
"Tall Buildings + Urban Habitat, Volume 1," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, 2017, Marina One in Singapore by Ingenhoven Architects, Raffles City Hangzhou in China and Canaletto in London, both by UNStudio, Beirut Terraces by Herzog & de Meuron, Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town by Heatherwick Studio, Jersey City Urby by Concrete, 150 North Riverside in Chicago by Goettsch Partners, Chaoyang Park Plaza in Beijing and Huangshan Mountain Village in China, both by MAD Architects, and Lotte World Tower in Seoul and Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen, China, both by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
"Best Tall Buildings 2016," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, Via 57 West by Bjarke Ingalls Group and The Durst Organization, 432 Park Avenue by Rafael Vinoly and Harry Macklowe and the CIM Group, Torre Reforma in Mexico City by LBRSA Architects, Shanghai Tower by Gensler, Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, South Beach in Singapore by Foster & Partners, Hongkou SOHO by Kenga Kuma in Shanghai (8/22/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2015," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, The World Trade Center in New York by David Childs of Skidmore, Owens & Merrill, the Sunrise Kempinski Hotel in Beijing designed by Shanghai Huadu Architect Design Company, the Swanston Square Apartment Tower in Melbourne designed by ARM Architecture, The Leadenhall Building in London designed by Rogers Stirk & Harbour, D'Leedon in Singapore designed by Zaha Hadid and Turning Torso in Malmo designed by Santiago Calatrava (8/17/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2014," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, The Interlace in Singapore and De Rotterdam, both by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Oregon designed by Cutler Anderson Architects, One Central Park in Sydney designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Cayan Tower in Dubai designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and the Jockey Club Innovation Tower in Hong Kong and the Wangjing SOHO project in Beijing, both by Zaha Hadid (8/8/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2013," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat," CCTV Headquarters in Beijing by OMA headed by Rem Koolhaas, The Shard and 30 Mary Axe, both in London by Norman Foster, Sowwah Square in Abu Dhabi by Goettsch Partners, The Bow in Calgary by Foster + Partners, Park Royal at Pickering in Singapore by WOHA, Sliced Porosity Block in Beijing by Steven Holl and Zhengzhou Greenland Plaza in China by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (8/5/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2012," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, Reflections at Keppel in Singapore by Daniel Liebeskind, One One One Eagle Street in Brisbane by Cox Rayner Architects, Doha Tower in Qatar by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Palm Towers in Doha by MZ Architects and the Absolute World Towers in Mississauga, Canada by MAD Arrchitects (8/4/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2011," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, New York by Gehry, the Guangzhou International Finance Tower, the Sky Tower in Moscow and the Riviera TwinStar in Shanghai, both by Arquitectonic, Capital City in Moscow by NBBJ, and Bella Sky Towers in Copenhagen by 3XN A/S (7/24/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2010," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, Burj Khalifa and O-14, both in Dubai, the Aqua Tower in Chicago, the Bank of America Tower in New York, the Pinnacle @ Duxton and the Marina Bay Sands resort complex, both in Singapore, and the Nanjing Greenland Financial Center in China (7/28/20)
"Best Tall Buildings 2009," Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat, Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnipeg, Trump International Tower & Hotel in Chicago, Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower, Tornadao In Doba, Qatar and the Broadgate Tower in London (7/22/20)
"Architecture Now! Volume 6" by Philip Jodidio examines Herzon & de Meuron's "Bird-Cage" stadium in Beijing, Coop Himmelb(l)au's BMW Weit and Akron Art Museum projects, the Leonardo Glass Cub by 3deluxe, the Trutec Building in Seoul by Barkow Leibinger Architekten, the SGAE Central Office in Spain Anton Garcia-Abril and Ensamble Studio, Heatherwick Studio's beach café in Littlehampton, the Dafen Art Museum in China by Urbanus Architecture & Design, and Brad Pitt's "Make It Right/Pink Project" in New Orleans (9/1/12)
"Temporary Architecture Now!" by Philip Jodidio examines Raumlaborberlin's "Moderato Cantabile" museum extrusion in Graz, Austria, the several mind-boggling pavilions at Expo 10 in Shanghai, China, and Massimiliano Fuksas sets for "Media" and "Oedipus at Colonus" (8/17/12)
"Architecture Now! Volume 4" by Philip Jodidio examines Eisenman's Memorial for Murdered Jews in Europe in Berlin, Moshe Safdie's Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Herzog & de Meuron's Allianz Arena in Munich, Massimiliano Fuksas's New Milan Trade Fair and Stefan Eberstadt's Rucksack House in Leipzig/Cologne (8/16/12)"Temporary Architecture Now! by Philip Jodidio examines Raumlaborberlin's "Moderato Cantabile" museum extrusion in Graz, Austria, the several mind-boggling pavilions at Expo 10 in Shanghai, China, and Massimiliano Fuksas sets for "Media" and "Oedipus at Colonus" (8/17/12)
"Spectacular Buildings" edited by Simone Schliefer with great photographs of 39 important projects (2/20/11)
"Talk About Contemporary Architecture" by Gilles de Bure (12/29/10)
"Architecture Now! Volume 3" by Philip Jodidio (12/10/09)
"New European Architecture 08/09" by Hans Ibelings and Kirsten Hannema highlights the bus and administrative center in Thiais, France by Emmanuel Combarel and Dominique Marrect, Subarchitectura's tram stop in Alicante, Spain, Herzon & de Meuron's Caixa Forum in Madrid and The next ENTERprise's open-air stage in Grafenegg, Austria
"Architecture in the Emirates," by Philip Jodidio with chapters on Rem Koolhaas's Rak Convention Exhibition Center in Ras Al Khairmah, UAE, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Burj Dubai, Jean Nouvel's Doha High Rise Office Building in Quatar, and Zaha Hadid's Signature Towers Business Bay in Dubai (4/18/08)
"Chicago Apartments: a Century of Lakefront Luxury" by Neil Harris (2/25/08)
"New Architecture, An International Atlas," by Francisco Cerver with chapters on Shin Takematsu's Swanium and the Westfalen Cultural Forum in Munster, Westphalia, Germany, by Ulrich Königs & Jorg Rekittke (2/9/08)
"Design in Contemporary Architecture: As Built," Christine Killory and René Davids, editors (4/9/07)
"New China Architecture" by Xing Ruan (9/1/06)
"Architecture: Art" by Philip Jodidio (3/11/06)
"Architects Today" by Kester Rattenbury, Rob Bevan and Kieran Long (2/25/06)
"On-Site, New Architecture in Spain" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2/18/06)
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture (2/8/06)
Architecture Now! Volume 2, by Philip Jodidio (2/7/06)
"Tall Buildings" by Terence Riley and Guy Nordenson at the Museum of Modern Art in Queens (1/12/04)
"Skyscrapers" by Antonino Terranova (12/14/03)
Paris Buildings and Monuments by Michael Poisson (6/15/02)
"The Architecture Traveler, A Guide to 250 Key 20th Century American Buildings" by Sydney LeBlanc (4/25/01)
Somerset House, home to the great Courtauld Collection and the Gilbert Collection, opens its great courtyard to the public in London by Michele Leight (11/5/00)
"The World of Contemporary Architecture," by Francisco Asensio Cerver (8/4/00)
"Skyscrapers, The New Millennium," by John Zukowsky and Martha Thorne (7/1/00)
London: The Millennium Projects: Museum Expansions: Daniel Libeskind's fantastic "Spiral" at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sir Norman Foster's great roof at the British Museum and Herzog & de Meuron's awesome new Tate Modern by Michele Leight (4/29/00, updated 5/26/02 and 9/18/04)
"The Japan Guide," by Botond Bognar (10/3/98)
"New Forms, Architecture in the 1990's," a book by Philip Jodidio (5/16/98)
"The Architecture of Skyscrapers," a book by Francisco Asensio Cerver (5/3/98)
Skyscrapers: "Skyscraper" by Judith Dupré and "Skyscrapers Higher and Higher" by Caroline Mierop (3/30/97, updated 4/19/97)
"Architecture For The Future" (7/12/97)
"Tokyo," (new guidebook to its recent architecture) (2/2/97)

§ Winslow Homer Crosscurrents at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2022 and The National Gallery in London in 2022 and 2023

§ The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds major symposium Dec. 11, 1999 on its controversial acquisition of "Riverbank," a Chinese painting it attributes to Dong Yuan and issues book on it that includes dissenting opinions This is a very long article (about 180K of text plus several illustrations!) with extensive quotations from the major participants. (12/29/99, revised 1/7/00)

§ C.C. Wang collection of Chinese Art is shown at the Metropolitan Museum and The New York Times notes Chinagate controversy first reported in The City Review (9/6/99)

§ Chinagate and original untruncated story about controversy over Metropolitan Museum's Chinese Art acquisitions and story as it appeared, dramatically rewritten and shortened in The Times (2/27/97)

§ Chinagate Revisited story about new Tang gift of Chinese Paintings (5/19, revised 5/26/97)

§ New York Post, in lead article of its Page Six column, reports on the controversy disclosed in The City Review (5/31/97)

§ Major donor of Chinese paintings at Metropolitan says museum violated contract and threatens to take back paintings and also disputes some of the extravagant claims by the museum about centerpiece of recent Tang gift of paintings from C.C. Wang collection (6/2, revised, in boldface, 6/4 and 6/21/97)

§ The City Review's "Chinagate" coverage makes Page Six of The New York Post the second time in four days (6/4/97)

§ Attributions (6/16, updated 11/15/97 and 5/2/98)

§ The New Yorker magazine quotes expert with serious doubts about centerpiece of recent Tang gift, doubts that were first raised in The City Review, and discloses that C. C. Wang plans to auction 40 works at Sotheby's where his grandson is the "resident Chinese-painting expert." (8/4, updated 8/8 to reflect report in ArtDaily, the Internet 'zine, that the museum plans to publish "defense" of "The Riverbank," and updated again 9/10/97)

§ C. C. Wang sells more, but not all of his Chinese paintings Sept. 22 at Sotheby's (9/10, updated 9/18/97 to note criticism by some experts of propriety of his grandson being a Chinese Painting specialist in the department and for the sale at Sotheby's and also suggesting that some of the lots were "questionable with very optimistic attributions and estimates", and updated 10/10/97 to note that less than half the paintings sold at Sotheby's and long article in October issue of Art News on C. C. Wang.)

§ Orientations Magazine carries long commentary by Richard Barnhart backing attribution of The Riverbank but criticizing extravagant claims and also runs long letter by Carl Nagin reporting that Sherman Lee and others do not accept it. (9/7/98, updated 9/12/98 to reflect new Barnhart letter in Orientations in which he comments that "every painting attributed to Dong Yuan is itself a later copy of still-uncertain date and provenance")

§ Letter sent by The City Review to Orientations Magazine but unpublished (9/6/99)

· Art/Auctions logo (Previews are based on catalogues, updates are based on visits to the exhibitions and recaps include sales results. Commentaries are selective and meant to reflect interesting and/or important lots.)

· The major auction houses did not print enough of their mini-catalogues with small pictures and no essays and, what is worse, they are jumbling up categories and putting works in major auctions that have absolutely nothing to do with the other works (7/20/23)

· The Fall 2008 Market and the Financial Crisis (12/14/08)

· Auction Angst: the anti-trust investigations and the issues of reserves, guarantees, estimates and post-auction sales (4/20/00, updated 9/26/00 and 2/24/03)

§ Impressionist and Modern

§ Recap of 20^th Century Evening Sale at Christie’s New York November 17, 2023 with major works by Modigliani, Rothko, Caillebotte, Manet, Varo and Picasso (7/5/23)

§ Recap of Modern Evening auction at Sotheby’s New York, November 14, 2023 with major works by Mondrian, Lempicka, Rothko, and Monet (7/15/23)

§ Recap of the Gerald Fineberg Collection auction at Christie’s New York May 17, 2023 with major works by Picasso, Mitchell, Krasner and Bradford (6/17/23)

§ Recap of the evening auction May 16, 2023 at Christie’s New York with major works by Rousseau, Picasso, Hockney, O’Keefe, Richter, Guston, and Mitchell (6/16/23)

· Recap of the Mo Estin Collection at Sotheby’s New York May 16, 2023 with major works by Rene Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell and Cy Twombly (6/15/23)

· Recap of the Modern Evening auction at Sotheby’s in the spring of 2023 with major works by Peter Paul Rubens, Klimt, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Picasso (6/30/23)

· Recap of the Collection of S. I. Newhouse auction May 11, 2023 at Christie’s New York with major works by Bacon. Picasso, Twombly, Bontecou and Gorky (6/30/23)

· Recap of the November 9, 2022 of the Paul Allen Collection at Christie’s New York with major works by Botticelli, Van Gogh, Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Manet, Gauguin, Klimt, Johns, Bacon, Hockney and O’Keeffe (6/30/23)

§ Recap of The Collection of Anne H. Bass at Christie's New York May 12, 2022 with major works by Monet, Degas and Rothko (7/16/22)

· Recap of The Macklowe Collection auction May 26, 2021 with good works by Warhol, Richter, Ryman, Twombly, Rothko, and de Kooning (7/1/23)

§ Preview and recap of the May 12, 2021 auction at Sotheby's New York of art from the collection of Mrs. John L. Marion, the legendary auctioneer at Sotheby's with major large works by Clyfford Still, Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, Franz Kline, Richard Diebenkorn and Kenneth Noland (6/18/21)

§ Preview and recap of the May 12, 2021 auction at Sotheby's New York of 21st Century art with good works by Jean-Louis Basquiat, Paul Cezanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miro and Edgar Degas (7/10/21)

§ Preview and recap of 20th Century auction at Christie's New York May 13, 2021 with major works by Monet, Seurat, Mondrian, Rothko and a couple of Picassos (6/17/21)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale at Sotheby's New York November 12, 2019 with a great Monet painting of Charing Cross Bridge, two very good Signacs and Miros, a related group of Giacomettis, and good examples by Braque and de Lempicka (11/12/19 updated 12/19/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale at Christie’s with excellent works by Boccioni, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Lempicka, Monet, Gaugin and Kirchner (3/23/21)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day Sale at Christie's New York November 12, 2019 with fine works by Salvador Dali and Jacques Lipchitz (11/12/19, updated 1/11/20)

§ P:review and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art day sale at Sotheby's New York November 13, 2019 with a great Monet painting of Etretat and good works by Nolde, Degas, Vuillard and Bonnard (11/13/19, updated 11/16/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York May 14, 2019 with a large work by Bouguereau and several paintings by Monet and Picasso (5/14/10, updated 5/28/19)

§ Preview of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 13, 2019 with fine paintings from the collections of S. I. Newhouse and Drue Heinz with major works by Vuillard, Bonnard, and good works by Cezanne, Van Gogh and Picasso (5/8/19, updated 5/14/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale at Sotheby's New York May 15, 2018 with major works by Vuillard, Sisley, Bernard and Morisot (5/15/19, updated 6/11/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York November 12, 2018 with major works by Vlaminck, Kirchner, Meidner, Miro, Monet and Hartley, Davis and Tamayo (11/12/18, updated 1/3/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York November 11, 2018 with fine works by Picasso, Giacometti, Monet and Cezanne (11/11/18, updated 12/27/18)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day Sale November 12, 2018 at Christie's New York with good works by Vuillard, Picasso, Signac and Hepworth (11/12/18, updated 1/18/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art day auction at Sotheby's November 13, 2018 with excellent works by Renoir, Loiseau, Friesz, Le Sidaner, Miro and Ernst (11/13/18, updated 1/22/19)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 15, 2018 with fine works by Brancusi, Giacometti, Feininger, Van Gogh and Caillebotte (5/15/18, updated 5/29/18)

§ Preview and recap of the Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction May 14, 2018 at Sotheby's New York with good works by Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, Feininger, Leger and Cassatt (5/14/18, updated 5/26/18)

§ Preview and recap of the Impressionist and Modern Art day sales May 15, 2018 at Sotheby's New York with good works by Nolde, Herbin, Picasso, L'hote, Lipchitz, Maufra, Picabia and Derain (5/15/18, updated 6/20/18)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper auction May 16, 2018 at Christie's New York with wonderful works by Moholy-Nagy, Le Corbusier, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Magritte, Monet, Vuillard and Schwitters (5/16/18, updated 6/2/18)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale at Christie's New York May 16, 2018 with good works by Archipenko, Vuillard, Boudin and Klee (5/16/18, updated 6/2/18)

§ Preview and recap of the Impressionist paintings auction of the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller at Christie's May 8, 2018 with major works by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, Gris, Derain and Matisse (5/8/18, updated 5/17/18)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York November 13, 2017 with major works by Van Gogh, Léger, Monet, Severini, Jean Crotti and Suzanne Duchamp (11/12/17, updated 11/14/17)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York November 14, 2017 with major works by Monet, Degas, Picasso, Chagall and Léger (11/14/17, updated 12/7/17)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art day action at Sotheby's New York November 15, 2017 with fine works by Picasso, Guillaumin, Miró, Pissarro and Hepworth (11/15/17, updated 1/28/18)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 15, 2017 with major works by Moholy-Nagy, Picasso, Monet, Chagall, Kandinsky and Signac (5/14/17, updated 5/20/17)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York May 16, 2017 with major works by Malevich, Picasso, Monet, Feininger and Ernst (5/15/17, updated 5/30/17)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day Sale at Christie's New York with good works by Loiseau, Daumier, Picasso, Vuillard, Miró, Archipenko, Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy (5/16/17, updated 7/4/17)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York November 14, 2016 with major works by Moholy-Nagy, Edvard Munch and Maurice de Vlaminck (11/13/16, updated 11/24/16)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art day auction at Sotheby's New York November 15, 2016 with fine works by Pechstein, Friesz, Picasso, Miro and Signac (11/14/16, updated 1/6/17)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York, November 16, 2016 with a "haystack" by Monet, and fine works by Bonnard, Kandinsky, Miro and Soutine (11/15/16, updated 11/28/16)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York May 9, 2016 with fine works by Egon Schiele, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henry Manguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alberto Giacometti (5/9/16, updated 5/12/16)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 12, 2016 with fine works by Renoir, Modigliani, Monet, Braque and Kahlo (5/11/16, updated 5/15/16)

§ Preview and recap of "Masterworks: The Collection of A. Alfred Taubman" evening auction November 4, 2015 at Sotheby's New York with major works by Matisse, Rothko, Munch, Smith, Modigliani, Kline, Toulouse-Lautrec and Still (11/3/15, updated 11/4/15)

§ Preview and recap of the Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York November 5, 2015 with major works by Van Gogh, Malevich, Pablo Picasso and Sisley (11/5/15, updated 11/7/15)

§ Preview and recap of "The Artist's Muse" evening auction at Christie's New York November 9, 2015 with major works by Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, Courbet, and Picasso with the Modigliani selling for $170 million and a Lichtenstein for $95 million (11/1/15, updated 11/9/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist& Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York November 12, 2015 with good works by Claude Monet, Hermann Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Claude Pissarro and Alfred Sisley (11/12/15, updated 1/8/16)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art day auction at Sotheby's fall of 2015 with good works by Cezanne, Bonnard, Archipenko, Gleizes, and Matisse (11/12/15, updated 2/11/16)

§ Preview and recap of "Looking Forward to the Past" auction curated by Loic Gouzer at Christie's New York May 11, 2015 with major works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacommeti, Claude Monet and Robert Delaunay (5/10/15, updated 6/24/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York May 5, 2015 with major works by Van Gogh, Monet and Léger (5/5/15, updated 5/8/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art day sale at Sotheby's New York May 6, 2015 with major works by Gabriele Munter, Léon Pourtau, Gustave Loiseau, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters and Claude Monet (5/5/15, updated 7/25/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 14, 2015 with major works by Piet Mondrian, Berthe Morisot, Amedee Modigliani and Brancusi (5/14/15, updated 7/3/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper & Day Sale including property from the John C. Whitehead Collection and fine works by Paul Serusier, Henri Matisse, Frantisek Kupka and Gustave Loiseau (5/15/15, updated 7/17/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York November 5, 2014 with wonderful portrait of a woman by Manet (11/4/14, updated 12/1/14 to indicate it sold for $65 million) (5/5/15, updated 5/8/15)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York November 4, 2014 with major sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, Amedeo Modigliani and fine paintings by Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Sisley, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst (11/4/14, updated 11/8/14)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale at Sotheby's New York November 5, 2014 (11/4/14, updated 9/4/16)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 6, 2014 with important works by Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Constantin Brancusi (5/2/14, updated 5/7/14)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York May 7, 2014 with many fine works by Picasso, Miró, Renoir, Matisse, Degas and Kirchner (5/6/14, updated 5/12/14)

§ Preview and recap of the Jan Krugier auction November 4, 2013 at Christie's New York with fabulous works by Kandinsky, Picasso, O'Keeffe, Rauschenberg, Ingres and Francis (11/4/13, updated 11/4/13 to report that auction total was only $92.5 million as opposed to its low pre-sale estimate of about $157 million, but the day portion was very successful)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York November 5, 2013 with major works by Modigliani, Giacometti and a great Van Gogh drawing (11/4/13, updated 11/5/13 to report that the sale total of $144.3 million was considerably short of the low pre-sale estimate of $188.8 million)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's November 6, 2013 with major works by Giacometti, Picasso, Monet, Sisley, Picabia, Léger, and Courbet (11/6/13, updated 11/10/13)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York May 8, 2013 with a great Soutine pastry chef, a wonderful large pastel by Pablo Picasso, an excellent Braque still life, an important large work by Egon Schiele, and two very lovely landscapes by Alfred Sisley (5/8/13, updated 5/9/13)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York May 7, 2013 with many fine works from the collection of Alex and Elizabeth Lewyt including a fine Cézanne and a good Modigliani (5/7/13, updated 5/8/13)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction November 7, 2012 at Christie's New York (11/7/12, updated 11/12/12)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's New York November 8, 2012 (11/7/12, updated 11/13/12)

§ Preview and recap of the Impressionist & Modern Art day auction at Sotheby's November 7, 2012 with great works by Andre Derain and Rudolf Bauer (11/6/12, updated 11/11/12)

§ Preview and recap of the Impressionist & Modern Art Works on Paper and Day auction at Christie's November 8, 2012 with great works by Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy Nagy (11/7/12, updated 12/1/12)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction May 2, 2012 at Sotheby's New York with "The Scream" by Edvard Munch and a superb group of paintings from the estate of Theodore J. Forstmann. The Munch sold for $119,222,500, a record for any work of art ever sold at auction. Its consignor pledged to open a Munch museum and said that his art was especially meaningful because of global warming. Meanwhile, locked-out art handlers picketed the opening. (5/1/12, updated 5/2/12 and 10/14/12 on report that Leon Black was purchaser and that the Museum of Modern Art will exhibit the painting)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York, May 1, 2012 (4/30/12, updated 4/1/12)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art day sale at Sotheby's New York, May 3, 2012 (5/2/12, updated 5/5/12)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art day sale at Christie's New York, May 2, 2012 (5/1/12, updated 5/5/12)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art day sale at Sotheby's New York November 3, 2011 (11/2/11, updated 11/6/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper and Day Sale at Christie's New York November 2, 2011 (10/31/11, updated 11/5/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art auction at Christie's New York November 1, 2011 (10/30/11, updated 11/1/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's November 2, 2011 (11/1/11, updated 11/2/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Sotheby's May 3, 2011 (5/1/11, updated 5/3/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art day auction at Sotheby's New York May 4, 2011 (5/3/11, updated 5/4/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction at Christie's New York, May 4, 2011 (5/2/11, updated 5/4/11)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art auction at Christie's November 3, 2010 (10/22/10, updated 10/31/10 and 11/3/10)

§ Preview and recap of Impressionist & Modern Art auction at Sotheby's November 2, 2010 (10/29/20, updated 10/31/10 and 11/2/10)