First Avenue District School in Newark, New Jersey Earns Green Award of Merit
Newark's First Avenue District School is winning accolades across the metropolitan area for its PS&S-led design and advanced green building features.
View ArticleRecycling Shea Stadium, Green Architecture in Brooklyn, Green Leases, Roofs,...
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of October 5, 2008, including the various pieces of Shea Stadium that will be recycled and sent...
View ArticleGreen Rental Apartments by Meltzer/Mandl Rising at 40 Gold Street
This 56-unit development in lower Manhattan will feature a number of green building features across 62,000 square feet.
View ArticleGreening Ground Zero, “Stunning” Energy Savings at Times Tower, & Highrise...
gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of November 10, 2008, including additional efforts to green the World Trade Center redevelopment...
View ArticleNet Zero Home in Brooklyn, Libeskind Goes Green at One Madison, & Credit...
With apologies for our technical issues over the weekend and an interruption last week to our regular posting schedule, gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York...
View ArticleGreen Industrial Leases, Images of Lost Gotham Green Towers, MTA’s Green...
gbNYC selects green news items of note that have been reported across the New York City area during this first week of 2009, including green industrial leases in North Jersey for Pantheon Properties,...
View ArticleWeek of April 27: gbNYC on Spring Break
We're shutting things down this week here at gbNYC for a brief mini-vacation but will be back with you next Monday, May 4. We'll be around on Twitter (@StephenDP) and encourage you to take a look back...
View Article1211 Avenue of the Americas: LEED-EB Program Certifies Its Largest Building
The 45-story, 2-million-square-foot 1211 Avenue of the Americas is the largest building that has been certified to date under the LEED for Existing Buildings rating system.
View Article“Amorphous Thin Film Glass” to Power MStudio’s 100 Varick Street Hotel
The hotel's thin-film glazing would produce up to 100 kilowatts of electricity, saving nearly $50,000 in energy costs annually.
View ArticleRainforest Wood on High Line, Green School in East Brunswick, and Empty...
gbNYC reviews green building news items of note from the New York City area during the week of July 5, 2009.
View ArticleBig Up in the Bronx: Boogie Down’s Melrose Commons First NYC Hood to Earn...
The South Bronx has picked itself up pretty impressively since its post-apocalyptic low ebb in the 1970s and '80s, and Melrose Commons -- the subject of a long-running Urban Renewal Area that kicked...
View ArticleBook It: LEED Gold Battery Park City Library Set To Open
Battery Park City is also home to Manhattan's first Applebee's, but the views are great and the buildings are nice and if there was one thing that one could grouse about as regards Battery Park City --...
View ArticleExtell Feeling Heat On Upper West Side Mega-Development Riverside Center...
The sharpness of the elbows getting thrown at the Fairway olive bar are nothing compared to what Extell Development Company has faced during its attempt to sell Upper West Siders on Riverside Center,...
View ArticleLos Angeles, America’s Most Efficient Built Environment. Or, Context Matters.
The fact that NYC's very design incentivizes green behaviors to a huge degree are what makes New York City greener than, say, Los Angeles. Wait, that report you read says what?
View ArticleSchoolhouse Rocks: Bronx’s Haven Academy Charter School Rehab Seeking LEED...
Right now, Haven Academy is housed in PS 73, but in 2010, the school will move to a rehabbed warehouse at 170 Brown Place in Mott Haven that will pursue either LEED Gold or Platinum certification. Even...
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