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I knew this place would be cool someday — we’re getting a Whole Foods!
The future of the remaining plots of undeveloped land in TriBeCa are becoming clear, even as the horizon above them will be occluded. Curbed notes that the Daily News gives a roundup on the status of Lots 5B and C (just south and west of P.S. 234 at the corner of Greenwich and Chambers Streets […]
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Boy, if we had PR flacks like this…
This is a playing fast and loose with the definition of “Above 59th Street” (and sure to infuriate at least one Upper West Sider who will cry out “But we have a Barneys Co-op now!”) — to say nothing of our stated editorial mission — but it’s all the same to me: four deaths in […]
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Don’t ask us to handicap the Sox series.
But you might get a little ‘told you so’: the LMDC announced the award of commissions for the two ‘cultural’ sites at the WTC today, tapping the pervasive bombast of Frank Gehry for the Performing Arts building, of whom nothing was predicted (I opted for Vinoly as an exercise in damage control over the continuing […]
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Seeking proper usage advice on “shorties” joke.
The LMDC has announced the short lists for the two most important comissions in New York currently unawarded. Too bad this information isn’t anywhere on their site. The Architect’s Newspaper brings us the details because Kevin Rampe is probably busy getting tips from Dick Cheney on how to dodge asbestos liability. It’s a good list, […]
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There are times when people are condemned to playact.
This is a quote from Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being that has always stuck with me, even as the specific context of his point wilted in memory. One reason the quote stuck is I wore it on a tee shirt for a couple years back in college. The shirt was made for a bicycle […]
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The devolution of the hero.
David Dunlap provides the details (to perhaps even an unnecesary degree: thermoplastic grout? Yeah, I was wondering about that) of the completion of a project I have been following, quite literally, the progress of over the summer. Jogging up lower Broadway is part of one of my regular routes, and I noticed one evening the […]
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Size Matters.
I try to consciously limit observations of those that could be nominally termed public (which means they are reasonably accessible, and require no fee for entry), but occasionally there is an odd confluence that seems worth sharing. I recall a conversation I had about the role of proportion in design with a former professor, then […]
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Exactly how dim is the NYPD? Well, apparently they never heard of this Internet thing.
Continuing their inexplicable logic that riding a bicycle on the streets of Manhattan is somehow qualitatively more criminal than driving a car, or, really, just testifying to some feelings of sexual inadequacy (though you have to be careful with lines like these: a friend, stopped by an officer — in, granted, a small Southern city […]
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Fireman Ed loves it, so it must be okay.
The Times reports that said Fireman is a well-known fella who is pimping for the Jets regarding the stadium, and since I don’t read the tabloid sports regularly, I have to take it on faith they aren’t being sarcastic or ironic. BY THE TIME you read this, it’s probably too late. But don’t worry, the […]
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There’s only trouble and desire.