From left: the artist’s sketches of a building on Bedford Street, the New Yorker Hotel and the Hearst Tower
From the April issue: James Gulliver Hancock is not a broker, a developer or a real estate finance executive. But he’s on an unusual real estate mission. The Australian illustrator, who moved to Brooklyn from Los Angeles a year ago, has been preserving New York City real estate as part of a project to sketch all — yes, all — of New York City’s buildings, from the giant Manhattan skyscrapers to the new condos to the old tenements. According to the city’s Department of Buildings, that means he’ll be putting pen to paper for more than 975,000 buildings in the five boroughs. [more]
