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It’s a good day to kick an unwanted English guest out of your apartment.
228 years ago today, colonists destroyed a statue of King George III located in Bowling Green. To commemorate this, the Times offers up a mixed bag in the form a round up-cum-history lesson about the parks downtown. We get some detail on the just finished work, some previews of what is to come, and we […]
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My position is self evident; it is a position.
Community Board 1 met on July 1 to decide something regarding the West Street Tunnel plan, the $900 million proposal to bury the stretch of West Street that faces the WTC site. People are decidedly mixed in their support (including even Battery Park residents who don’t think it will do much to create a stonger […]
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A day late, a dollar… er. Um.
A little late, but this — not-so-little Danny Libeskind’s response to the Times Magazine sort-of profile — seems to escaped the attention of most, save for the sharp eyed folks at Architecture Week. His point sees to be similar to an argumentative gambit a friend of many years has determined I employ with distressing frequency. […]
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Sued as the News.
NY1 reports (though they are probably re-reporting this Times article) that ‘Newsstand Owners’ (the NNOA, though they don’t seem to have a web presence) are suing the city to prevent implementation of Local Law 64, passed in 2003 (0569-2003A — and PDF here). Local Law 64 is part of an omnibus effort to ‘clean up’ […]
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Don’t Look Now.
While everyone else is busy trying to get a peek at the best attended ground-breaking ceremony in city history, John Young spent the weekend exercising his free speech rights, posting two new additions to his ‘Eyeball’ series, which aggregates publicly available information on potentially sensitive sites, the Statue of Liberty and NYC Bridges and Tunnels.
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It’s the capacity, stupid.
Today’s profile in the Times’ Public Lives is Clark Hampe, director of terminal planning (which can be an interesting oxymoronic title, read a certain way) at Penn Station. The focus is mostly on a timely subject (the recent announcement that most of the entrances/exits will be closed during the Republican National Convention), though buried in […]
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New learning center opens in Queens. Maybe.
It’s a press release about the opening of a new addition. Er, no, it’s a press release about an exhibition opening that will run briefly and then will really open when the addition is actually finished. Yet all of this won’t take place until November, and it’s in Queens, so you can forget all about […]
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I Light NY.
NY1 reports that Milton Glaser, oft cited as the creator of the I ‘Heart’ NY logo, is promoting a ‘non-confrontational’ protest to the Republican National Convention: he is asking everyone to point a flashlight or similar light source at the sky the opening night, from dusk til dawn (start exercising now). The symbolism is that […]
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Turns out they didn’t think we could steal the ABMA from the Marriott Sawgrass.
The Independent Budget Association released its analysis of the proposed Jets stadium yesterday, and it turns out they don’t think the city can find 35 new mid-sized conventions to fill the space after eight Jets games and Ozzfest. The Times reports the Jets responsed with the charge that the IBO was both “pessimitic and inexpert”. […]
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Gird yourself for lots of heated denouncements at the unneccesary appendage of ‘street.’