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We’ll call it stoner chic.
Crain’s NY (print) reports in their May 16 edition that Landmark West! (a group that sounds like they were formed about eight minutes ago — not unlike this one — but their website claims a far grander lineage) has hired The Advance Group, credited by Crain’s as “the consulting firm that helped union workers at […]
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Let there be light.
Everyone gets their own personal Quixotic campaign. The sort of thing that provides a topic to proselytize about at cocktail parties, gets one mentioned in Public Lives, maybe even a needlessly long profile in the New Yorker (“His career as a critic began inauspiciously, when he told an secondary school instructor that if they could […]
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I don’t see how ‘roof of bones’ won’t be the inevitable epithet.
Without being tiresomely self-reflexive, I do think it’s necessary to preface this with a comment about pre-existing prejudices. I have never liked Calatrava’s work. His stature has grown exponentially over the past five years, and has been on a steady climb for considerably larger. When I first saw his work, as a student, I remember […]
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The Magic Truffle.
Some time ago I was eating with friends one of the more renowned establishments in town when we were presented with what one of them derisively called the ‘Magic Truffle’ trick. You’ve seen the scam. Server comes out and rattles off the impressive specials list, and at the end, in a particularly excited voice, shares […]
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This is the kind of thing you can’t get on the 4/5/6.
The ratio of muddy incomprehensible subway messages to those indicative of a sense of civic pride that makes them worth keeping is certainly steep. Hearing a subway message at all is worth noting on its face. And today I was treated to one of those subtle civil servant performances you can’t get from a recording. […]
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Balazs new holeytel.
Correction: Turns out Gluckman was only flashing us. Balazs doesn’t even think people will stay overnight in art. And his flacks didn’t even find it necessary to call (for that matter, nor did Gluckman). Turns out Polshek is designing the building. Via Curbed. Original Item: Apparently Andre Balazs is confident that whereas people will stay […]
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NY1 not interested in Childs interview any time soon.
In a rush to demonstrate journalistic skills on par with a blogger, NY1 posted the breaking news that the Freedom Tower will be ‘redesigned’ and ended with this precious nugget: The 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, designed by Berlin-based architect Daniel Libeskind, will be the architectural centerpiece of the redesigned WTC site. The words “David” and “Childs” […]
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Wednesday Lore*. Like usual?
Explaining some of the more odd rituals to those who haven’t ventured to the city is an interesting process. Not because for the exception of the ritual in the experience, but for what it signifies the absence of: exercising one’s ability to choose from the myriad, and instead settling for the repetitive and possibly banal. […]
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Now that the Times said it, it must be true.
After rumblings over the past few weeks (minor rumblings, to be sure — it was mostly us bloggers, until the doyenne got into the act), it finally broke big: the master planning at the WTC site is a fiasco. Not just as deemed by amateurs, cranks who were just paying attention and noticing how unlikely […]
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Donald Trump: Fuck Off.