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Citigroup to downtown: Drop dead.
So how much office space do we need downtown? Citigroup announced it was pulling 1,700 jobs out of downtown today, sending most to Jersey City, and a smaller number to Long Island City. Chase is also expected to ship more jobs from downtown as the Bank One merger is completed. Goldman Sachs will be consolidating […]
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Now this is how you do a bitchslap.
It’s been a smackdown kind of week in the arts world. Now, a lawsuit has relatively little pugilistic value, but you would think the literary types would get a bigger charge out of the terse words that get bandied about in court papers instead resorting to slap and tickle at chi-chi eateries (the whiff of […]
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Good art always arises from struggle. But when do we get to the art part?
The Times picks up the deliciously nasty tale of art and preening self-interest going on at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center in the Lower East Side. The Villager ran a piece on this last month, which is even richer in detail. Either the Times took pity, and glossed over the fisticuffs in […]
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Now into the hands of dissemblers.
The Times provides a pretty thorough picture of the work currently slated for the WTC site. Though it implies the inevitability of progress, the article is written very specifically about the immediate needs, which would be the precursor of almost any construction, it invokes the future via the senseless mantra of Guileless Pataki ‘Steel in […]
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We’ve got high hopes, high hopes.
Curbed promises detailed takes on the High Line finalists all week long, in anticipation of their formal presentation this Thursday. Hopefully, they have better access than the Times does. Here’s the early line (no pun intended): Holl in a walk. It’s buildable, he’s got the history, and, excepting surveys run by Thoman Krens and Peter […]
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More ‘Street Art’.
Deitch Projects (the Grand Street location, 76), is featuring work from Steven Powers (aka ESPO, and the author of The Art of Getting Over which we don’t really know, save for seeing it on the design/alternative art display at St. Mark’s Books). Following a motif he has apparently been developing, much of the work is […]
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Apparently they hand out nostalgia and psychedelics at these events.
The Daily News reports on a recent symposium dedicated to establishing guidelines for the development of Governors Island, a project, like the new Pennsylvania Station, that is an example of the extraordinary statemenship of the late Sen. Moynihan leading to positively provinical and embarassing inaction (the legend is that he convinced Clinton to sell the […]
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ABG: Longer than you think.