By Staff 4/05/07 6:13pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • The West Village is really getting old: the chimney of famous Bedford Street speakeasy Chumley’s “separated from the interior wall and collapsed into the bar area.” Thankfully, the Department of Buildings promises that demolition is “not being considered at this time.” [Curbed]
  • The subprime mortgage catastrophe has even hit uber-fancy homes: Palaces Read More

    • By Christopher Bray 8/21/06 12:00am

    Giraffes and Communists Collide in Eastern Europe

    “I’m a giraffe,” Sophia Loren once said. “I even walk like a giraffe—with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.” Dumb but dignified, J. M. Ledgard would doubtless respond. If his first novel doesn’t quite put the world’s tallest mammals on a pedestal, it still leaves you thinking rather more Read More

    By David Thomson 10/03/05 12:00am

    A Book To Carry You Away— Berendt Does Venice, Loosely

    “Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or reach of fiction working in what the author insists is nonfiction. “I had been walking along Calle della Mandola,” says the author, “when I ran into Count Marcello.” And just like a wise, sardonic and not Read More

    By David Thomson 10/03/05 12:00am

    A Book To Carry You Away- Berendt Does Venice, Loosely

    “Everyone in Venice is acting” are the first words of this book, and the opening has the feel or reach of fiction working in what the author insists is nonfiction. “I had been walking along Calle della Mandola,” says the author, “when I ran into Count Marcello.” And just like a wise, sardonic and Read More