My Banal Neighborhood
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:12 pm
Click the play button to watch Metropolis’s executive editor, Martin Pedersen, deconstruct the “strange, almost mutant form” of a building in his Yorkville, Manhattan, neighborhood—one that appears to have been designed entirely by real estate lawyers. (Click here to watch the first installment of “My Banal Neighborhood.”)
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Which city is he talking about? The only Yorkville I know is in Toronto, but I don’t recognise that city scape, nor the “79th St” reference.
Comment by Liz — January 28, 2010, @ 7:28 pm
Liz,
It’s the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan — our apologies that this wasn’t made clear. (I just updated the post with this information.)
You can learn more about the boundaries of Yorkville in Martin’s initial “My Banal Neighborhood” video. Here’s the link:
http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20091120/my-banal-neighborhood
Comment by Mason Currey — January 29, 2010, @ 10:55 am
This was soooo boring to watch. Come on man!
Comment by Jizm — January 29, 2010, @ 4:01 pm
Beyond banal actually - NYC has become such a poster child for American mediocrity and profit maximization that you might as well call this piece ‘My Pathetic Neighborhood’.
(How much nicer would it have been to even see the facade of that 4 floor brownstone extended across the block … )
Comment by BoredWithNYC — February 4, 2010, @ 9:44 am
Wonderful series and commentary, please do more! And please come up to the Bronx, where several new condo’s sit empty and forlorn, if finished, like glassboxes parachuted in from Vancouver.
Comment by Ella — February 4, 2010, @ 1:34 pm