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There’s only room for one Moss in this town.
No one else seemed to have picked this up (trans: an eight-second Google search turned up nothing), but last week, the Architect’s Newspaper reported that Eric Owen Moss had been dismissed as designer of the Queens Museum expansion. Moss was pretty vituperative in his response, saying, in part, that Tom Finkelpearl, the executive director of […]
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Because we saw our shadow.
Because reviving one’s blog is the new black. Because someone has to remind everyone that Kevin Rampe is a mendacious control freak, we are back. Sort of. Whatever that means.
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For which we are truly not thankful.
This will be poorly written, in one of those juvenile, petulant and self-aggrandizing rationalizations about theoretical consistency. You know how it goes: why should I strive for pellucid and trenchant prose when I do nothing but chronicle the filth that runs like a river from developer greed to homeowner indifference (or grasping desperation, should you […]
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If you stand very still, you can hear the crickets.
Sometimes it seems that the urban experience in New York is not the physical manifestation of grand ideas, but the battles that preceded, and often defeated, them. Westway. Any number of Robert Moses’ highway projects. Hopefully the Jets stadium. It is an oft repeated canard that the intransigence of New Yorkers, usually couched in some […]
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Get ready to lose every vote this week.
Well, Schumer won at least. Really, all our folks won, Glick, Nadler, a bunch of Supreme Court justices that are selling divorces in Brooklyn. All well and good here in Very Blue Land. Unfortunately, even here, where our godless liberalism is supposed to hold sway, that won’t protect us from the evangelicals. And you know […]
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Oh, no Mr. Robber, sir, I do not carry cash. My companion here, Peter, has the checkbook.
In New York, you get used to the whims of fashion. You get used to pronouncement of what is cool and exactly, precisely when it is toppled. The capriciousness of the process can be frustrating, particularly when, say, a restaurant doesn’t actually suffer a loss of quality, or a band doesn’t really change. Or maybe […]
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Tisoped! Tisoped! Gnikcehc eerf-tseretni!
Boy, aren’t those new Bank of America branches really… red? I admire, if such a phrase is appropriate in this context, a financial services organization that is willing to forgo the traditional prohibition of red in any marketing involving money, and likewise the desire to make retail banking visually similar to a Pizza Hut, but […]
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You are my Sunshine…
[NB: A reader alerted me to two inaccuracies, which have been corrected in the text and some comments have been appended below the text] LIVING IN NEW YORK and being a fan of architecture always means having to say you’re sorry. More precisely, it means having to say, ‘Well, it could have been worse.’ Considering […]
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Time to see if R.W. Johnson has the natural benefit his prodigious name implies (well, it worked for Don and LBJ).