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Where there’s a Will.
So I fought the man this weekend. Or, at least, I walked in sympathy of those who do. While wandering around, looking for a late lunch (what does one do if they want to eat at 5:PM on a weekend in this town?), I heard sounds of commotion that most certainly weren’t those of a […]
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
So I have a fancy alarm clock that awakens you slowly, by raising the volume of your intended selection (music or radio) slowly. I’ve given up on identifying the ideal song (should it be jarring or soothing? Vintage Sonic Youth or “The Stars of Track and Field”), and now resign myself to Soterios Johnson (and […]
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New York Times, meet developer’s pocket; developer’s pocket, meet NYT.
I was hoping to find the time to craft some long-winded ire, but the real world conspires against me. That, and the panoply of horrendous journalism churned out in the course of a single afternoon from the House of Ratner (okay, okay, Neighbors of the House of Ratner) make it a little unfair that I […]
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Where is Landmarks West when you need them?
I would have opened with the “first they came for the Jews” reference, but that would be as tacky as my friend who always laments having to make a tough decision playing cards as similar to Sophie’s Choice. So I’m not that tasteless and overly melodramatic in the face of what is nonetheless a tragic […]
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Meet Frank Sciame, architect of the WTC Memorial.
The Downtown Express is reporting that Frank’s red-lining of the Memorial plans is, frankly, quite a hatchet job (okay, that’s my take — they are a little more even-handed). He’s talking about eliminating the waterfalls — and not just for winter, but altogether — and moving the victims names from below ground. And here I […]
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Maybe Hevesi didn’t have a bad idea after all.
Either our off-the-cuff challenged comptroller is pyschic, or the Rovian practice of payback really is a bitch, cause last week the Department of Homeland Security — an organization that has already presided over the destruction of one American city without major changes to its management — determined that just about everywhere in America is in […]
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Too bad it wasn’t one of the “fucking the wife” sculptures.
The rebirth is double-plus officially underway! You know the world is safe for capitalism when long in the tooth ‘avant garde’ artists, in case, Jeff Koons and Jenny Holzer (though it turns out she wasn’t long in the tooth enough, and surrendered veto power to some Silverman lackey), have been asked to gild the tomb […]
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Euwwwww.
There will be no Prague Spring in the East Village if residents of East 4th Street have their way. Pulling every string and trick in the CB playbook, they are waging quite a campaign to prevent the success of block newcomer EU, an oddly named (given the graphics and logo imply the name is “Soviet […]
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Disinterwha?
This site is mostly referred to as an architecture blog. That’s what I say most of the time as well. Occasionally I will refer people to the tagline that falls at the bottom of the page and maunder for a while about figures like William Whyte or Jimmy Breslin, and here assiduously work to avoid […]
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Don’t even think of progress here.