Just as we were really missing Toni Schlesinger’s “Shelter” column that was published in the Village Voice since 1997, this 300-plus page anthology of her writings crosses our desk.
It should be noted that the original cover, from the spring Princeton Architectural Press catalog, is comparatively more tame. Just a doorbell Read More
It’s bad enough when workmen enter your apartment, don’t fix your problem and leave behind a mess. But what’s really irritating is when they also burglarize the place. That’s what happened to one unlucky East 83rd Street resident on Jan. 11. He told the police that he was expecting the plumber—and, when the guy didn’t Read More
It’s bad enough when workmen enter your apartment, don’t fix your problem and leave behind a mess. But what’s really irritating is when they also burglarize the place. That’s what happened to one unlucky East 83rd Street resident on Jan. 11. He told the police that he was expecting the plumber—and, when the guy didn’t Read More
Oct. 6, 2005
12:40 a.m. / 12:42 a.m.
6 pounds, 5 ounces / 6 pounds, 9 ounces
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital
Double trouble! After 30 hours of labor and five days of recovery time, first-time mom Ashley Ryan is enjoying two little bundles of joy, both with full heads of hair and faces loaded with character. Read More
Oct. 6, 2005
12:40 a.m. / 12:42 a.m.
6 pounds, 5 ounces / 6 pounds, 9 ounces
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital
Double trouble! After 30 hours of labor and five days of recovery time, first-time mom Ashley Ryan is enjoying two little bundles of joy, both with full heads of hair and faces loaded with character. Read More
So there was A. Gifford Miller, standing around in khakis and one of his candy-stripe Sea Island cotton button-downs outside the Western Beef on Merrick Boulevard in Queens.
“We Know the Neighborhood,” the acid orange sign stated flatly. A big black dude in blue-tinted square-frame sunglasses cannonballed out of the supermarket’s automatic doors. Read More
Harvard, Yale and Princeton are the Holy Trinity of American higher education, are they not? After all, wouldn’t any high-school senior leap at the chance to spend four years being coddled in those Ivy halls, with the guarantee of a gold-plated jump on the competition when it comes time to find a job?
Apparently not. Read More
My grandmother Nadia passed away a couple of weeks ago at the impressive age of 104, almost 105. And last week I performed the quintessential New York act of pricing a bench in her honor in Central Park. They’re going for $7,500 these days.
“I thought they were $5,000,” I said to Molly Roberts, who Read More
Avenue Q , the puppet musical at the Golden Theatre on Broadway, has been described as savvy and sassy, post-modern Sondheimean, a breakthrough musical, and everything else an oversized hand puppet could desire. There are three puppet-free performers in the show; they could be life-size cartoons. But for the sake of offending any adult who Read More
An architect who worked for Michael Bloomberg in the 1990′s has launched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which he says contains proof that Skidmore conspired with top executives at Bloomberg L.P. to unlawfully copy millions of dollars worth of his work, The Observer has learned.
Thelawsuit, whiledirected atSkidmore, implicatestop BloombergL.P. executives, and Read More
