Time for an Essex Crossing update. After encasing the former Essex Street Market building on the south side of Delancey Street in plywood and scaffolding, workers are beginning to demolish the 1940 single-story structure. A 24-story mixed-use building will eventually rise on this parcel, site 2 of the large development project. Annel Cabrera, community relations […]
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Michael Friedlander, Urban Architect of Offbeat Designs, Dies at 63
He was best known for the Spring Street Salt Shed, a crystalline structure that appears, with a little imagination, to form a coarse grain of salt.
Michael Friedlander in 2007 with a model of what ultimately became the Department of Sanitation building at the corner of 55th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. He worked for the department for 40 years.Credit.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
April 1, 2021
In the 1970s, Michael Friedlander was an architecture student at the Cooper Union, his head bursting with bodacious, unconventional designs. On graduating, he settled for a stopgap job with the City of New York, which had him working on prosaic assignments like drafting blueprints to renovate locker rooms for sanitation workers.
Used People (1992).
He was a regular performer with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts starting in the mid-1960s and appeared opposite Glenn Close in a Yale Repertory production of
Uncle Vanya in 1981.
A Teaspoon Every Four Hours in 1969 through the Leonard Nimoy-directed
The Apple Doesn t Fall in 1996.
Born Leo Melis in Brooklyn on July 15, 1930, he was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from Seward Park High School and attended NYU, then studied with acting teacher Michael Howard for seven years after a stint in the U.S. Army.
Many thought that Wallace bore a striking resemblance to the charismatic Koch, who served as the mayor of New York City from 1978-89, and Burton cast him as the mayor of Gotham City in