Green Apple

Thanks to retrofitting, restoration, and renovation, New York City’s most famous icon is now a model of energy efficiency.

A downtown office building ushers in the greening of Manhattan’s rooftops.

Athough Henry Miller’s Theatre is part of the recently completed Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, its exterior hardly looks brand new. The beautiful façade of the original 1918 building remains intact: the red brick walls, Greek-inspired urns, and neo-Georgian details are flanked by contrasting towers of glass and steel.

Exactly a century ago, the American Bank Note Company did something astounding. It pulled up stakes in Lower Manhattan and moved its factory of printing presses way up to Hunts Point in the South Bronx.