The Penn Club of New York – now observing its 30th anniversary – invited David Helpern back, though not to design, consult, or renovate as Helpern Architects has done regularly. Instead, at a June 27th celebration, he made a presentation …

Helpern Architects recently delivered a Master Plan to Carnegie Hall intended to reimagine the illustrious venue’s front-of-house public spaces, supporting its three performance venues. Carnegie Hall originally engaged Helpern to create this study in 2018, looking at public spaces last …

Helpern Architects has completed the modernization of Fountain Heights Senior Housing in the Westville section of New Haven, Connecticut. The project will be put out to bid in early July of 2024. Built in 2000, Fountain Heights is a low-rise …

Helpern Architects has been working with the owners of historic Pete’s Tavern, a five-story building near Gramercy Park, to meet the city’s new post-COVID restaurant requirements. In 1864, Pete’s predecessor started to sell “groceries and grog” in the building, which …

Helpern Architects is pleased to spread this good news: The opening of Carnegie Hall’s Joan & Sanford I. Weill Café – an 1891 space that we totally restored and reimagined – has been well received! The newest iteration of the …

Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has re-appointed David Helpern for a sixth term to Manhattan’s Community Board 8, which serves the Upper East Side. He was sponsored by NYC Council Member Julie Menin. David is by fiat on the Land-Use …

The COVID pandemic suspended or stopped much of our work. [We opted to work virtually on the rest.] At the same time, it kept us from observing, let alone fussing over, our 50th anniversary: June 15, 2021. New Yorkers, however, …

During the summer of 2021, Helpern Architects joined forces with Ronnette Riley Architect [RRA], also a sole-owner firm, to better deliver design counsel and services to existing and future clients. “Ronnette and I had already shared a client with excellent …

The 8,400-sf Natatorium of John Jay College has re-opened after the 7-year-long renovation of the leaking pool and all its outdated systems and support areas. The complex is in Haaren Hall, in the City University of New York campus’ main …

After a $9.5-million renovation, senior housing facility Project HOPE – originally known as the Adelstein Family Senior Housing facility – has been rededicated at a ceremony attended by officials from B’nai B’rith International, the Office of US Congressman Eliot Engel, …