The numbers look good. Crime is way down, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report. The rate of our drop is over 10 times the national average of .5% (ours was 5.8%). In Dallas, there were 9328.2 crimes per 100,000 people last year. In New York, 2916.9. We really are the safest big city in [...]
We’re in the tail end of the Chinese year of the monkey, as the screeching and chest-thumping of recent political discourse reminds us. Some monkey do’s: Documentary Chimpanzees are at risk for extinction—there are likely no more than 105,000 living in the wild. Learn more tonight (6:30pm-8:45pm) at the Explorers Club, 46 E. 70th [Mad/Park] [...]
We’re not really tree-huggers, but you have to admit that trees are having their moment in the sun. Last week it was the tranny in a tree story. This weekend, the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic. And up in the Bronx, the new visitor center, designed by Hugh Hardy, opens tomorrow at the [...]
Adam Moss The wunderkind-turned-Times-magazine-editor-turned-culture-czar pulled a February surprise by bailing on the Times and coming aboard moribund New York magazine, roused from its Primedia stupor by Bruce Wasserstein. Fans of Mr. Moss’ 7 Days, the brief but beloved city magazine, are thrilled.
Yesterday, 24 of D.C.’s local artisan bakers, chefs, canners — just plain food enthusiasts — creeped down into a Kennedy Street apartment basement to serve some of the city’s best underground fare. This time around, the peripheral location of the DC Grey Market proved to be a true test of the most dedicated food foragers [...]
This just in: an inspirational image Thomas Krens has on his office wall, as The Guggenheim continues its global expansion. Title: Think Big!! Branding museums and building them all over the world creates a global institution, space, and collection. What I am tracking in this story is how works in the collection, and exhibitions mounted, [...]
The Hearst Tower, Norman Foster’s only building in Manhattan, is getting its curtain wall. (I’m not counting the fabulous Asprey store, gorgeous but interior). What struck me on the afternoon I took this was how the glass origami crystal candy building appeared like a fantastically alien construction, contrasting brutally with the brown brickness all around [...]
Last week, IIT announced that they were auctioning a chance to smash the first pane of glass removed from Crown Hall. The cheekiness of the whole event is nothing short of astounding to me. I am appalled, as if someone tried to mug me after I just moved to New York. I have nothing against [...]
A week after coming back from Japan, I was invited by a friend to visit MOMA. It was the Wednesday of the week of opening parties, invitation only. I strode onto 53rd Street it as if I knew where I was going. Once I turned the corner, and approached the building, I realized that I [...]
When I was young, I played with picture-puzzles. One of these puzzles was a psychedelic composition not unlike something you’d see in Heavy Metal. Each of the pieces was fascinating in and of themselves, because the drawing was so detailed that each puzzle piece contained complete little pictures. When snapped together, the puzzle formed a [...]