Mind-Boggling Reveals: Doyle Drive About to Disappear Forever, Say Hello to Your Lovely New Tunnel

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, March 5, 2012, by Philip Ferrato

Now that we've gotten past that worrisome deficit problem at the Doyle Drive replacement project, here's a celebratory video of what's to come this spring. Supervisor Mark Farrell and project spokesperson Molly Graham take us on a tour of the nearly complete tunnel- to which traffic will be permanently shifted after a weekend closure of the corridor to demolish the vintage elevated structure. Expected to happen this spring, dates to be announced. The new route to the bridge will be called "Presidio Parkway" although we're not sure the "Doyle Drive" appellation will ever go away for locals. Its reinvention will extend the Presidio's green space and views, plus clear the way for the Trust's creek daylighting projects down to the Bay. The video is a production of Teed-Haze TV and aside from the briefest of intros by Butch Haze, is completely real estate marketing-free. Enjoy.
· Doyle Drive Project Continues With Deficit Closed [SF Gate]
· Doyle Drive Coverage [Curbed SF Archive]
· Teed-Haze at Curbed SF [Curbed SF Archive]
· The Presidio: Up a Creek, Now With Native Plants [Curbed SF]

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House of the Day: Riverside Drive Mansion From The Guy Who Designed Carnegie Hall

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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got.

Location: New York, N.Y.
Price: $20,000,000
The Skinny: Built in 1909 for a Turkish tobacco baron, this French Renaissance-style house was designed by the architect behind Carnegie Hall, William B. Tuthill. Tuthill's design includes 12,000 square feet of living space, a hallway lined in Egyptian marble and Turkish glass, a smoking room (naturally), a dazzling green tiled roof, and, remarkably, an underground passage under the street leading out to the Hudson River. The secret escape hatch is now sealed, and that might be a small part of why this house is having so much trouble finding a new owner. When it first hit the market back in 2006, the asking price was a jaw-dropping $31M. Over in the heart of the Upper East Side, that price might be run of the mill, but for the way uptown address at 107th and Riverside Drive? It's none too surprising that the house has endured some substantial price chopping in the past four odd years. By March of last year, the 41-foot-wide mansion was asking $24.9M. Today, it remains on the market for $20M. Still quite the pretty penny, but no matter what the current owner manages to get for it, he probably stands to make a tidy profit. A Columbia Law professor, he purchased the mansion in 1979 for just $325K.
· Riverside Drive [BHS]
· $25M Riverside Drive Mansion Makes Annual Return to Market [CurbedNY]
· An Opulent Home, a Rich Past [NYT]

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