Superstorm Sandy hit the South Street Seaport Historic District hard, but at least one block of the brick-and-cobblestone retail and residential neighborhood — which saw water seven feet or higher on ground floors — may be back to normal in time for the Fourth of July.
One World Trade Center now stands a symbolic 1,776 feet high, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and third tallest in the world
We still remember when Douglas Durst was telling us of his envisioned 1 Bryant Park — which was then a hole in the ground at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street — “Our rents will have a ‘1’ in front of them.”