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City Cracking Down on Bed Bug Epidemic
There's a growing bed bug epidemic in New York City. Complaints to the city hotline, 3-1-1, jumped 34% last year, as over 9000 people called asking for guidance in their battle against the insects. In...
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A Trend-Setting Building With a Small Carbon Footprint Grows in Brooklyn
A contemporary, gray apartment house on Grand Street in Brooklyn is one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the city -- and may be a symbol of the future of New York architecture. The recently...
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Spire Raised to Top of One World Trade Center
Building crews hoisted the last pieces of a 408-foot spire Thursday morning to the roof of One World Trade Center.Once fully installed at a later date, the building will soar to a symbolic 1,776 feet...
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Spire Raised to Top of One World Trade Center
Building crews hoisted the last pieces of a 408-foot spire Thursday morning to the roof of One World Trade Center.Once fully installed at a later date, the building will soar to a symbolic 1,776 feet...
View Article#6: The View From the 79th Floor
On July 28, 1945 an army bomber pilot on a routine ferry mission found himself lost in the fog over Manhattan. Stories from the day a plane crashed into the Empire State Building.
View ArticleInside Co-Location
Under the Bloomberg administration, the number of "co-located schools"—multiple schools in a single building—has doubled in New York City. Radio Rookies Leslie Batista and Kiala Donald attend one of...
View ArticleWhen Glass Houses Become Hothouses
A group focused on smart architecture is warning that the many glass towers that have been built in New York City in recent years are at risk of becoming heat traps in a summer blackout.The Urban Green...
View ArticleAre Property Taxes Making Your Rent Too High?
New York City's complicated system taxes rental buildings at a higher rate than co-ops and condos. Jessica Gould explains a lawsuit brought by two renters who say that the system is discriminatory and...
View Article122- Good Egress
When designing a commercial structure, there is one safety component that must be designed right into the building from the start: egress. “Egress” refers to an entire exit system from a building:...
View ArticleBehind the Boom
If you’ve recently turned a corner and been stopped in your tracks by a tall building that wasn’t there before, you’re on to something.Real estate in New York City has been on a tear recently with...
View ArticleReport of Brooklyn Building Collapse a False Alarm
A report that a building had partially collapsed in Brooklyn has turned into a false alarm.A fire department spokesman now says there was no partial collapse. He says firefighters had initially...
View ArticleNew York City's Changing Skyline and Resilient Architecture
New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman recently returned from Mexico where he worked on a year-long project about global cities and climate change. He returns to our show to discuss...
View ArticleThe Creative Rivalry That Built Modern American Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson were two of the most influential and seemingly opposite architects of the 20th century. In Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson,...
View Article228- Making Up Ground
Large portions of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Hong Kong and Marseilles were built on top of human made land. What is now Mumbai, India, was transformed by the British from a...
View Article291- Thermal Delight
When air conditioning was invented in 1902, it was designed to take out the humidity in the air so printers could run four color magazines, without the colors becoming offset due to the paper warping...
View ArticleWhen Women in Construction Are Harassed on the Worksite
"I would really appreciate it if men in the construction industry would call each other out for cat calling. Because it's disgusting."That's a voicemail WNYC received from Mike in Manhattan, who says...
View ArticleIn Infrastructure Race, China Comes Out Ahead of U.S.
America's infrastructure is in bad shape, and it impacts different communities in different ways. President Trump is proposing $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending, with $200 billion coming from...
View ArticleSurfside Collapse Highlights Florida's Unstable Insurance Market
Last month, a 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida, partially collapsed, killing 97 people. In the aftermath, survivors have not only had to deal with their catastrophic loss, but also the...
View ArticleThe Reasons Behind Turkey’s Horrific Earthquake Death Toll
Over 41,000 civilians have died in the aftermath of last week's earthquakes, which struck both Turkey and Syria in the early hours of the morning on February 6. The death toll rises by the day. As...
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