By Staff 1/05/07 5:02pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Friday

  • The Time Warner Center’s “expensive sheen” is still glittery, pushing the asking price of neighborhood apartments into posh new levels. S. Jhoanna Robledo has a precise list of Columbus Circle sheen. [New York]
  • “Big Old East Village Book Party” sounds like fun, especially to people who live in expensive, but punky downtown Read More

    • By Staff 9:16am

    Brown Bag Protest


    Tom Wolfe’s preservationist friends are taking their “Save 2 Columbus Circle” campaign to the street this Thursday. A lunchtime demonstration is planned to take place outside the Center for Architecture, at 536 LaGuardia Place. The Center for Architecture/AIA New York Chapter will be gathering for a private reception in support of the new Read More

    By Staff 8/15/05 10:01am

    The (Topless) Panic In Central Park

    When word came that there was a protest in Central Park on Sunday afternoon to be carried out exclusively by naked girls, The Transom sprung into action, camera in hand.

    But on arrival, there was only a huddle of shirtless old men. Some were on bicycles. Others merely stood around writing slogans on each other’s Read More

    By Staff 8/09/05 8:05am

    Ranks Break at Landmarks Over 2 Columbus Circle

    Sherida E. Paulson, former chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (2001-03), wrote an Op Ed in July 30′s New York Times on the fate of 2 Columbus Circle, the vaguely Moorish-looking monolith designed by Edward Durrell Stone which is in danger of having its facade ripped off and replaced by a modernistic response to the Read More

    By Jessica Joffe 3/29/04 12:00am

    Eight Day Week

    Wednesday 24th

    The Time Warner behemoth on Columbus Circle burps out another event tonight , as Dom Pérignon launches its newest vintage, harvested in the summer of ’96 and somewhat spookily dubbed the ” Vintage of Light ,” within the ice-cool walls of the Mandarin Oriental hotel. We asked our man at D.P. what Read More

    By Bryan Miller 3/22/04 12:00am

    A Suburban Revolution?

    Stepping off of an escalator recently, I found myself in a refulgent summer garden-snapdragons, carnations, dahlias, daffodils and enough varieties of roses to furnish a sizable senior prom. It’s a lovely touch, especially for a supermarket. Then again, this is not your conventional urban supermarket.

    Now that Whole Foods Market, the country’s largest organic food Read More

    By Matthew Ian Grace 5/26/03 12:00am

    Community Boards

    Board 5 O.K.’s Facelift For

    Columbus Circle’s ‘Lollipop Building’

    Reviled by some and revered by others, 2 Columbus-known as the “Lollipop building” because of its quirky, candy-shaped columns-has just edged a bit closer to a major, and controversial, renovation.

    On Wednesday, May 8, Community Board 5 voted to approve the disposition of the Read More

    By Tom McGeveran 2/03/03 12:00am

    Glass Menagerie

    The large glass panels are working their way up the skeleton of the AOL Time Warner Center, the mixed-use pair of obelisks stretching 80 stories into the sky over Columbus Circle. The progress is measurable daily. In fact, the massive mountain of commerce-now at its full height-stands confidently astride the street grid, as if it Read More

    By Andrew Rice 12:00am

    2 Columbus Circle Is Given Hard Look By Schrager’s Team

    New York’s flashiest hotelier has fixed his sights on the city skyline’s ugliest duckling.

    Ian Schrager, the man behind the Hudson Hotel, said he’s been approached by two developers looking to form a joint venture to buy and demolish 2 Columbus Circle, the windowless onetime art gallery that the city has been trying to sell Read More