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Wednesday Lore: Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances.
It seems highly unlikely, I know, but I am a closet romantic. Born and bred in the midwest, the experience of the evening there is different in many obvious ways, and one subtle. Even though my parent’s home is a dreary straight line drive west across Pennsylvania, the sun sets seemingly later. I used to […]
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Have you heard? Ground Zero is a mess and Pataki is an idiot.
What a difference a year makes. This time last, the Freedom Tower was a highly contested and unresolved image failing to anchor the plans to revitalize the WTC site. There was an ugly dispute about authorship, control and the likelihood of resolution bespeaking of synthesis was remote. Now, everything is… The story is so pathetic […]
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Pianissimo.
So has the Whitney succeeded, or failed? It’s hard to figure out, since the current decision challenges us to declaim our pessimist/optimist stance, the Landmarks Preservation Committee having handed down a Solomonic decree to cleave Renzo Piano’s proposed solution neatly in half, mandating that one of the ‘contributing’ townhouses be retained, while one ‘non-contributing’ structure […]
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Wednesday Lore: Neither city, nor subway, but Empire.
I think of how my friends and relatives would chortle over a particular episode of Seinfeld and remark on how clever the writers were. After a few years of living here, I didn’t doubt their creativity or skill, but I did come to recognize how some of the most effective gimmicks were in fact anthropological […]
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Bohemia ascendant?
The bohemian spirit — or at least the tattered vestiges that pass for revolutionary urbanity — reigned supreme last week in the Village, when the city backed down on their threat to make Washington Square Park a hardened facility. Perhaps staking out the same level of paranoid control evidenced in Tompkins (but oddly considered unnecessary […]
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Freedom on the march. March. March.
The LMDC unveiled the plans for the new Snøhetta museum complex for the WTC site yesterday, thinking a sexy rendering would distract everyone from their awful site planning, and total lack of interest in the Performing Arts facility. It didn’t. Take a look here. They are certainly concerned about giving Calatrava’s glass hat the prominence […]
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Not that I want to be typecast or anything.
Is it too early to be hatin’ about Foster’s new Hearst Tower? I’m just asking.
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No, now they have really won.
This is a site that relishes superlatives and wallows in vitriol (or so some say). So it takes quite a effort to compel me to reach for loftier heights of derision, but it’s a sad day when I have to. I used to think the worst example of callous, self-interested behavior I witnessed as regard […]
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Stadia agonistes.