Though he has only a few weeks left in office, City Councilman David Yassky has lost none of his enthusiasm. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, he parked a blue minivan on Kent Street in Williamsburg and bounded out, wearing a black suit and a black tie with green flowers, and no coat, although it was Read More
I stood outside the City Reliquary and waited for the president and founder to arrive.
There’s a vaudeville streak in the appearance of the reliquary, a not-for-profit “museum and civic organization” on Metropolitan and Grand in Williamsburg. The front door is red and painted with an ominous, snakey design in gold and black. On Read More
By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was open, and there were families and couples and single people standing around. Many of them had different-color neon stars stuck on their jackets or tshirts, which indicated both that Read More
There is now a large bronze apple on the median of Park Avenue at 52nd Street, just west of the Seagrams building. The apple is large enough to notice, but not so large that someone giving directions to the apple would say, “You can’t miss it.”
This is the Pomme de New York, which Read More
