David Lombino has a fascinating piece on how another tunnel under the Hudson River is fitting into negotiations about who controls Ground Zero. It involves too much horse-trading to go into here, but, unlike most Sun articles, it is completely free on the Web.
-Matthew Schuerman
In April 2004, gallery owner Barbara Gladstone signed a contract at Richard Meier’s latest residential project, 165 Charles Street, as reported a few months later by New York magazine. Well, the deal finally closed earlier this month for $4.75 million, according to deed transfer records. (Ms. Gladstone is in Europe and Read More
Greenwich Village dwellers and preservationists won a battle today when the City Planning Commission voted to limit the height and scale of new developments in the far West Village, a haven of luxury real-estate speculation since the infamous Perry Street celebridorm by Richard Meier, overexposed both literally and figuratively, went up along the Hudson River. Read More
Today, the Department of City Planning is meeting to review a proposal to rezone the Far West Village, from roughly west of Greenwich and Washington streets to the Hudson River, between 14th and Morton Streets. The D.C.P. will be considering a down-zoning, which would decrease the bulk and maximum height of new buildings in the Read More
“Hey, you’re that guy!” I turned and saw that the actor David Duchovny was talking to me. It was 5:30 in the morning. We were in line to get body-marked at the 2004 New York City Triathlon.
“You’re the reason I’m doing this,” Mr. Duchovny said. “I registered after reading your article. I grew Read More
Black Diamond or Fungus?
Soho’s Ode to the Truffle”What exactly is a truffle?” asked my teenage son dubiously. We were having dinner in a restaurant on Spring Street that offers over a dozen dishes made with truffles.
The menu answered his question: “It is the black diamond of Provence. It’s elegant, refined, fragrant and Read More
Almost four decades have passed since an exhibition called Primary Structures (1966) was organized at the Jewish Museum in New York. For many of the people who saw it, Primary Structures was their first encounter with what was soon to be called Minimalism-an art so radically denuded of embellishment, complexity or any obvious visual appeal Read More
The upper Hudson River is particularly inviting at this time of year. Sun glints off the blue-brown water as the wide river meanders through green farmland, the smell of fresh water seducing a casual passerby to dangle a toe in the cool stream. This landscape does not have the dramatic cliffs and rocks of the Read More
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani may have banished sex from Times Square, but the lucrative industry of upmarket strip clubs has simply moved on to a more hospitable home: Manhattan’s far West Side. That hospitality, however, may be short-lived, for the community’s politicians and business people are seething over their new neighbors, charging that the clubs will Read More
There is a passage in one of Henry James’ essays on painting in which the writer, sounding his characteristic note of irony, poses the following question: “Was Rubens lawfully married to Nature, or did he merely keep up the most unregulated of flirtations?” I thought of this observation recently when I went to see the Read More
