{"id":756,"date":"2016-03-15T19:20:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T23:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2016-03-15T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T23:24:17","slug":"personal-projects-update-part-3-single-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/personal-projects-update-part-3-single-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Projects Update part 3 &#8211; Single Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 2 decades we&#8217;ve seen enormous change in lower Manhattan. The area around here has been so heavily and quickly developed it&#8217;s nearly unrecognizable from how it looked in the 80&#8217;s and early 90&#8217;s. Seeing this has sparked many of our\u00a0projects including New Bowery (Architecture&gt;New Bowery at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\" target=\"_blank\">adamfriedberg.com<\/a>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/personal-projects-update-part-2-empty-lots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empty Lots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Single Story Project is a more recently started one, linked to the Empty Lots in many ways, and coming\u00a0from the idea of air rights. How are these structures still here?<\/p>\n<p>Not long ago there were very few tall buildings downtown, and especially on the Lower East Side where\u00a0there were zoning laws with height restrictions preventing them from going up. Now they are everywhere. Yet there are a\u00a0few oddballs holding out, buildings that were different even before the new towers. Single Story structures in Manhattan, the most vertical city in America. Let&#8217;s look at them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_766\" style=\"width: 1217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/personal-projects-update-part-3-single-story\/rite_aid\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rite_Aid.jpg\" alt=\"Rite Aid, 81 1st Avenue, NYC \" width=\"1207\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rite_Aid.jpg 1207w, https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rite_Aid-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rite_Aid-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rite_Aid-1024x733.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rite_Aid-920x659.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1207px) 100vw, 1207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rite Aid, 81 1st Avenue, NYC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 2 decades we&#8217;ve seen enormous change in lower Manhattan. The area around here has been so heavily and quickly developed it&#8217;s nearly unrecognizable from how it looked in the 80&#8217;s and early 90&#8217;s. Seeing this has sparked many of our\u00a0projects including New Bowery (Architecture&gt;New Bowery at adamfriedberg.com) and the Empty Lots. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamfriedberg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}