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And she didn’t trot out some rape analogy. Damn.
Kate Millet, who has empowered legions of affluent white girls that bothered to attend good schools finds herself victim of yet another social order dominated by men. In this instance, rampant development (which, hey, we happen to hate too) has forced her to make do with only 1700 square feet of city apartment. That’s right. […]
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Hey, hey, most of the gang’s here.
David Dunlap tries to work some scandal chic into what was by any measure an innocuous event, yesterday’s RFP conference for the two cultural sites at the WTC site. It’s a sloppy mess, presuming the casual reader will know the proposed location of the musuem site, which will also hold the Drawing Center (never mentioned) […]
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You won’t have old Herbert to kick around anymore.
The Times introduces Nicolai Ouroussoff today, and he introduces the winners of the High Line competition: Field Operations + Diller, Scofidio and Renfro. As a piece of writing, it’s not the strongest move out of the gate, but he does show legs in the backstretch and finishes strong. Opening with some general comments about the […]
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It’s Wednesday; time for some public interest group to oppose the West Side stadium.
What? It’s Thursday? Oh, well, then it must be time for… as my father would say, same shit, different day. Actually, we’re just late in reporting: it was Wednesday, and it was the Citizens Union this time, the “city’s oldest good-government organization” as the Times puts it. They offer a succinct position paper that addresses […]
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130 Liberty Street: cleaner than you think. We hope.
A little more news is leaking out regarding the planned deconstruction of 130 Liberty Street. After reiterating that you can’t trust an investment bank when it comes to analysis, the LMDC spent some time glad-handing at a CB1 meetings, and reported that they will be commissioning their own study of site before proceeding. Given that […]
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Times Arts editors: left hand, meet right hand.
The new concrete: sure is pretty, if you can find someone who can make it.
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Naked Cowboy releases study showing Jets stadium poor investment.
So we’re being a little facetious, but only because we’re interested in what sort of twisted Google strings will lead folks here. However, it really does seem that if everyone in town has pretty solid analysis (there’s a bunch more out there, but why bother linking? There will be a new one tomorrow for Dan […]
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The Spy List.
Delivery Trucks. Bicycle messengers. Food delivery guys. ‘Homeless’ people. Transvestite Prostitutes. Eurotrash tourists. Improv teams. Out-of-town ‘firefighters’ coming to town to commune with the spirit of their fallen brothers. Parking attendants. Drunk girls trying to vicarioulsy recreate their favorite scenes from SATC. Univision news crews. Yuppies pushing Maclaren stollers without any kids in sight. Republicans. […]
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It’s days like these I don’t miss 254/255 forms.
The LMDC has released the RFP for the Cultural Buildings at the WTC Site. RFP Conference is next week, and submissions due at the end of the month. No scoring criteria are outlined, so it’s hard for anyone to self-select (beyond the very obvious requirement of having successfully completed a project with a construction budget […]
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Mike, you might be right, but that doesn’t mean anyone likes your plan.