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Happy 2012! Although we’ve already cleaned up the champagne and put away the party hats, we wanted to take one look back at the Observer‘s most popular posts of 2011. Here you have, ranked in order, our twelve top stories from the past year, judged by unique views sourced through Google Analytics.
It has not been a great year for buildings, but that does not mean this has been a bad year for architecture.
In years past, the soaring condos and office towers of the building boom have dominated this list. Most of those are done, finally done, or never will be done. We still find room for two, but the vast majority are civic buildings and public spaces, perhaps what New York needs now more than ever as the city continues to fill up with more New Yorkers. It has been a good year to find room to breath, to see, to walk, to live. Read More
The demise of Oprah’s Book Club might have left publishing bereft, but there was plenty to celebrate in 2011: Amazon Publishing blithely ignored the sniping of the Big Six and installed itself as a player in New York, a billboard of Jeffrey Eugenides in a vest competed with the toothsome blondes gracing Times Square and Read More
It’s been a crazy year for New York’s residential real estate market.
Defying all expectations, nay, reality, the market is back, at least at the tippy top, where records were repeatedly toppled. It was the year of the foreigner, particularly the Russian oligarch. But when you look past all the headlines, the Upper East Side and its tony co-ops townhouses still reign supreme—834 Fifth posted three top deals alone—even if they no longer can claim the crown. That belongs, now and probably forever, to 15 Central Park West. At least until they finish the next Tower of Babillionaires across the park. Read More
The auctions this year were relatively robust in spite of continued global economic instability, even if the top lots were frequently aided by third-party guarantees. Here's an overview of the top prices realized at auction this year at New York's top three auction houses. All research courtesy of Artnet.
We’ll be honest with you: 2011 was not a great year for shooting in New York. Midnight in Paris showed that Woody Allen‘s semi-permanent European vacation was far from over, and The Dark Knight Rises had trouble incorporating Occupy Wall Street into its footage.
Still, there were several films this year that used New York–or Read More
While looking over all of the posts from The Observer this year, a few seem obviously ripe to revisit. Over the summer, we put together the list of 2011′s Media Power Bachelors and Bachelorettes—100 of the most powerful single people currently running the media world. We combined the lists, crunched the numbers, and took a look at the individuals who rose to the top. But instead of ranking the guys and dolls by raw clicks, we decided to look at those whose pages were kept open the longest—those who caused readers to pause as they passed through the list, to take a more thorough glance of appreciation. Back in middle school, these would be the people whose yearbook pictures would be torn out, covered in hearts, and secretly tucked into lockers. Below, you’ll find, ranked in order, the Media Power Singles that you swooned over the most.
