Casa Cipriani Makes Itself at Home in Revitalized Battery Maritime Building

Designed in 1906 and completed three years later, the Battery Maritime Building (BMB) at 10 South Street in Lower Manhattan was once a vital waterfront ferry hub for Brooklyn commuters who crisscrossed the East River on one of 17 lines. But the elegant and ornate beauty of the Beaux-Arts-Expressionist terminal faded fast, and it began to fall into a state of disrepair after ferry service between its slips and the outer borough ceased in 1938. For better, and more often worse, efforts to revitalize the cast-iron creation designed by architects Richard Walker and Charles Morris ebbed and flowed through the… Read Full Article