NY Observer > Alex Garvin http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/30756/feed Articles from Observer.com en For ‘Ultimate Insider,’ It’s Sunnyside Up http://www.observer.com/node/39511 A behind-the-scenes political insider could become the city’s next big development kingpin, if  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39511#comments Real Estate Alex Garvin Daniel Doctoroff Long Island City Paul Marshall Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Matthew Schuerman 39511 at http://www.observer.com For 'Ultimate Insider,' It's Sunnyside Up http://www.observer.com/node/52750 A behind-the-scenes political insider could become the city’s next big development kingpin, if May  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/52750#comments Real Estate Alex Garvin Long Island City Michael Bailkin Paul Marshall Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Matthew Schuerman 52750 at http://www.observer.com It's Alex Garvin's Town; You'll Never Live In It http://www.observer.com/node/52627 Alex Garvin has been Dan Doctoroff’s favorite urban planner for about seven years now, ever since  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/52627#comments Real Estate Aaron Naparstek Alex Garvin Barnes & Noble Inc. Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Matthew Schuerman 52627 at http://www.observer.com The Early Stages of the Future http://www.observer.com/node/35066
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Far from being in the early stages, as his people like to claim, the team drafting Mayor Bloomberg's Strategic Plan had commissioned a study by Alex Garvin (Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff's Olympics designer) on housing, which was completed in May. The list of projected housing platforms is far longer than we reported yesterday, including not just the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Sunnyside Yards but also the Prospect Expressway, the 36th Street Yards, and the Bay Ridge Line.

"This report," the introduction states, "presents opportunities to build between 160,000 and 325,000 housing units, with virtually no residential displacement...."

By way of explanation, from the housing chapter: "In some sections of the city, the cost of land now exceeds the cost of buildign a platform."

There is a lot more of it to dig through, also about the "public realm," which an urbanist like Garvin surely put a lot of thought into. Aaron Naparstek has it all on StreetsBlog. -Matthew Schuerman]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35066#comments Real Estate Alex Garvin Brooklyn Daniel Doctoroff Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:30:00 -0400 Observer Staff 35066 at http://www.observer.com The Man Who Is Almost There http://www.observer.com/node/47001 When Berlin-based American architect Daniel Libeskind unveiled his plan for the World Trade Center s  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/47001#comments Alex Garvin Berlin Nina Libeskind Ron Shiffman Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:00:00 -0500 Tom McGeveran 47001 at http://www.observer.com