In his essay What the Sixties Meant to Me, the painter Rackstraw Downes writes of an encounter with a painting by the Flemish master Pieter Bruegel. Mr. Downes describes The “Little” Tower of Babel (c. 1563) as “densely legible, a thousand stories in every square inch” and “equivalent to two or three books of the Read More
OK, if you care, here’s the official list of new City Council assignments. (Everything not mentioned stays the same.)
AGING – Maria del Carmen Arroyo
CONSUMER AFFAIRS – Leroy Comrie
CONTRACTS – Yvette Clarke
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – Tom White
EDUCATION – Robert Jackson
FIRE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE – Miguel Martinez
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There was a fair amount of amusement over Mayor Bloomberg’s (quickly corrected) entry in the Associated Press Day Schedule for today:
11 a.m. _ Announces something; Staten Island Mall, 2655 Richmond Ave., Staten Island.
NOTE: Press availability follows; enter through main entrance between Macy’s and Sears; press van leaves east gate of City Hall Read More
Other families go to Park City or Antigua over Christmas
break. We go to the mall. The mall I’m referring to is in Albany, N.Y., about a
half hour from our weekend home. Albany is actually blessed with two malls-the
Colonie Center and the supposedly more upscale Crossgates Mall-though the
distinction is lost on me Read More
