The Dome Is Done

ByDon

The curved dome atop 44 Union Square, the former headquarters of Tammany Hall, is structurally completed and the geometric glass panels that enclose the lattice frame are beginning to be installed. The renovation is designed by BKSK Architects and developed by Edifice Real Estate Partners. CNY Group is in charge of construction on the historic, 90-year-old landmarked structure, which is being expanded to 70,348 square feet. Two new floors will be housed beneath the dome and receive abundant natural daylight.

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    We’re sad to note the very untimely passing of our neighbor Dan Gallagher (apt. 3D). The co-op will make a donation in his name to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, as his family requested. You can leave a personal message here. The following obituary was printed in his hometown New Jersey newspaper.

    Daniel J. Gallagher, on July 31, 2009, of Manhattan, NY, formerly of West Deptford, NJ. Age 42. Loving son of Francis and Lorraine (nee DiAmore) Gallagher. Devoted brother of Jack Gallagher (Melinda). Maternal grandson of Ida Cibinski. Beloved uncle of Bradley and Regan Gallagher. Dear nephew of William Gallagher, James Gallagher, Charles Gallagher, Michael Gallagher, Ann Marie Feeney, Greg Cibinski and the late Patrick Gallagher, Margaret Rankin and Kathleen Greene. Also survived by many cousins. Dan graduated from West Deptford High School, Class of 1985. He was a graduate of the Penn State University School of Engineering and received his MBA from Cornell University. Dan had a very successful career at Honeywell International where he held the position of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Specialty Materials Division.

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    “The New School has been a presence at 65 Fifth Avenue, the site of the University Center, since 1967, when the university converted a Lane’s department store building for student use. But long before the address became associated with educational innovation, it was renown for innovation of another kind. In 1881, inventor Thomas Edison installed at the address (which was then occupied by a handsome brownstone) a permanent exhibition of his electrical discoveries. The biography Edison: His Life and Inventions reports that “the house was thrown open to the public until late at night, never closing before ten o’clock, so as to give everybody who wished an opportunity to see that great novelty of the time—the incandescent light—whose fame had meanwhile been spreading all over the globe.” It is a fitting legacy for the University Center, which upon opening in Fall 2013 will itself serve as a living teaching tool, with exposed energy and water management systems to provide working demonstrations of sustainable design.”

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