Reno completed at the Corbin Building

One of Lower Manhattan’s architectural gems — put in peril by the Fulton Street Transit Center — is finally emerging from its renovation, the New York Times reported. The Corbin Building, a nine-story Romanesque Revival tower finished in 1889, was almost destroyed when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority laid out its plans for its Fulton Street makeover. But preservationist groups intervened with  SHoP Architects and Robert Silman Associates, a structural engineering firm, and successfully convinced the MTA to keep the building intact. As it [more]