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By Erica Martin 4/05/12 6:33pm

Low Line

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Ramsey and Barasch. [Ethan Ries]

Gallery Installation for the Low Line Is Creators’ Promise to Get Serious

On Sunday, April 1, the white walls of Mark Miller Gallery on Orchard Street were covered with renderings of the imagined possibilities of the Low Line, a much-talked-about plan for an underground park in an abandoned trolley turnaround station below Delancey Street that will be lit by solar technology, if its creators can make it happen. The exhibit, which opened that night, also included a three-dimensional model of a cross section below Delancey Street, and a rather intimidating example of that fiber-optic solar technology. Read More

By Erica Martin 3/24/12 3:00pm

Party Report

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Gems at David Yurman to Kick Off the GLAAD Awards

David Yurman’s Madison Avenue townhouse, which displayed his newest collection for ogling in honor of the GLAAD Media Awards, is beige. Waiter, models, or waiter-models in black swooped around the glass jewelry displays brandishing tuna tartar on tiny bites of toast, and GLAAD co-chairs welcomed participants as they filed inside, heading straight for the champagne at the far wall. Read More

By Erica Martin 2/14/12 1:57pm

Fashion Week Observed

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Cushnie et Ochs for Newbies

The Observer shuffled into Milk studios on Friday and eyeballed everything. We were particularly impressed by the far wall, which was effectively blotted out by a pile of photographers. Their enormous lens protruded out toward the runway, and they waited like a hulking army of cyborgs. Read More