New York

The Woolworth Building

by Don Friedman on May 5, 2013

More events for a 100th birthday party:

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Talking History

March 30, 2013

I’ll be speaking at the Skyscraper Museum on May 15. The talk concerns the engineers and engineering developments of early skyscrapers that culminated in the construction of the Woolworth Building in 1913.

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International News, Sort Of

February 4, 2013

Here’s OSE’s very own Gabi Pardo, helping describe Grand Central for a Spanish news show on the terminal’s 100th anniversary: Grand Central cumple 100 años.  

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Sandy

November 1, 2012

There’s some irony in a structural firm that performs forensic investigation of buildings being shut down by storm damage, but here we are. Our office is fine and the building is open again as of today, but our staff is stranded across the city without reliable transportation and the area surrounding our office is not [...]

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Temporary Bracing

February 14, 2012

We are currently working on combining two brownstones to create one very large single family residential home on the Upper West Side. The buildings have landmarked facades which we will preserve while creating a new steel framed building within the existing facade. The existing party wall dividing the two lots will be removed to create [...]

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A Building Ghost

September 26, 2011

We often find remnants of old buildings that had previously been on a site we are working – fragments of old foundations and reused old foundations being the most common – but sometimes you see ghosts of buildings that have been demolished on the site next door. This most commonly happens with old rowhouses where [...]

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Lucky, Twice

August 29, 2011

In the past seven days, we had an earthquake that turned out to be very minor and a hurricane that was not minor but whose effects largely by-passed the city. While OSE would benefit financially from either event being worse than it was, I feel that NYC was lucky twice and we should all be [...]

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Special Inspection

July 25, 2011

We find ourselves explaining “Special Inspection” on a regular basis, and more specifically, why we are not currently performing that work. What is now called Special Inspection (and was formerly called Controlled Inspection in New York City) is not inspection of buildings, a service that we perform every day. It is the inspection of various [...]

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“Design”

June 30, 2011

The Center For An Urban Future has released an interesting report on the importance of design services to the New York City economy. Some of their stats are a little weak (they compare the total people employed in design and total number of firms in NYC, LA, Chicago and other cities, where per-capita numbers would be more [...]

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NYC Media

June 13, 2011

The official New York City website has a section called “NYC Media” that includes short video clips on various topics of interest to city residents. In the “Life” section is a subsection called “Blueprint | NYC” that contains videos on various landmarks. It began with City Hall and Gracie Mansion but has since moved on [...]

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