 Just north of New York Law School we will see where John F. Kennedy Jr. lived and his attempt to keep an as-of-right movie theater out of the Atalanta Building.
|
 We will look up and see the completed Trump Hotel and discuss the zoning issues associated with it. |
 Remember the movie Ghostbusters? This is where the Fire House scenes were shot. |
 We will pass Robert DeNiro's building and discuss the land-use problems that were associated with its construction.
|
The Washington Market Urban Renewal Area is now completed with luxury apartments a school and retail stores. |
 Do you remember the movie "She Devil"? This location was used as the site of Rosanne Barr's character's Employment Agency. It was on the Urban Renewal site before the new construction was started.
|
The Sun Building now contains the Department of Buildings, but was once the home of the Sun Newspaper and before that a Department Store. Mary Todd Lincoln used to love to shop there, while staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel down the way on Chambers Street. |
 The building that now contains the "J & R Music World" was once the tallest building in the world, and the top cupolas were used for tourists to see the views.
|
 On the former "Beekman Hospital" Urban Renewal site near City Hall and Pace University, we will see the new Frank Gehry luxury apartment house still under construction.
|
 This is the finished southern exposure of the "New York by Gehry" apartment house. This facade does not wave like the other ones.
|
 This was the site of the former "Corn Exchange Building", a 17 story office building that went in-rem for back taxes and was sold at City Auction for $13.1 million in 1983. It is now the site of the Beaver House.
|
 The same property where the developer walked away for back taxes was demolished and a new building was constructed starting in 2005 and is now the 44 story Beaver House. This shows how property values can change in a "down cycle".
|
 We pass the Woolworth Building, which was the tallest building in the world until the Chrysler Building surpassed it. It was known as the Cathedral of Commerce.
|
 We will pass City Hall Park and take a look at the Brooklyn Bridge on our way back to NYLS. |
TOPICS DISCUSSED WHILE WALKING:
Urban Renewal Programs and Condemnation
In-Rem Procedure for non payment of Real Estate Taxes
Tribeca's Mixed Use Zoning District
Washington Market Urban Renewal site
"Beekman Hospital" Urban Renewal site with New York by Gehry
Beaver House, DeNiro's Penthouse, JFK Jr. zoning issue
|
Tour begins and ends at New York Law School's West Broadway building.
|
ABOUT THE TOUR GUIDE