The Slow, Inevitable Death of Middle-Class Housing Built with high ideals and architectural panache, New York’s stock of mid-20th-century apartment buildings is now threatened by greed and decay.
In the Bronx, Priceless Sculptures Are ‘Literally Being Chipped Away’ More than 1,000 terra-cotta sculptures — of firefighters, mermaids, steelworkers — adorn the walls of Parkchester in the Bronx. Is there a plan to protect them?