Sapere Aude
Tag: nyc
That looks fantastic.
Perkins Eastman has released a plan to turn Broadway into a pedestrian park running 40 blocks in Manhattan. The Green Line would extend from Columbus Circle to Union Square, connecting several prominent parks and plazas (Madison Square, Herald Square, Times Square) along the way.
The time has come for me to leave New York City. After almost 2 whole days here on business, it just feels right.
It’s hard to pinpoint when New York officially was over for me. Was it this morning in my hotel room, when I got the check-in e-mail from Delta? Or 5 minutes later, when I took a taxi to the airport?
I can still recall the moment it all began like it was yesterday, because it was yesterday. I landed at J.F.K. on a misty Friday afternoon, to attend a conference on plastic utensils. I had finally realized my childhood dream of moving to the concrete jungle, where dreams are manufactured.
Reminds me of the many visitors who confuse Manhattan with NYC, and proclaim that they could never live here based on their extensive times square experience.
at least now we’re getting some benefit for all the constant surveillance. as i’ve argued before, it makes fences redundant.
Using design and landscaping strategies—and by subtracting as much as they’re adding—park designers mean to edit and revise a number of parks to better meet their neighborhoods. The program also targets a special site category called “park-adjacent spaces.” These are those vexing parcels that seem to have been forgotten or neglected or excluded by park planners. “Very often we have these dead spaces that are just concrete, sitting there unprogrammed, next to parks. We’re now incorporating these into the parks themselves. We believe ‘park’ is not land for the park but the sidewalk next to the park as well.”
nailed it.
As Whole Foods arrives, hope departs. Ethnic restaurants will be replaced with half an aisle dedicated to “international ingredients.” Greek will be the only variety of yogurt and the quality of kale will be as high as the rent for an alcove studio. Lana Del Rey will be elected to the city’s council. There will be a great migration of former residents to more affordable housing. As they are loading their U-Hauls, one of them, a man without a ukulele, will look to the heavens and ask “Why?” He will hear the voice whisper a single word: “Kombucha.”
that looks amazing.
how many microdistricts could there be in the city? I wasn’t imagining things — the Flatiron District, or more specifically, a stretch of 18th Street between Fifth and Eighth Avenue, is home to an unusually high concentration of furniture, kitchen, and bath stores. SoHo also has a high share of furniture stores, in spite of, or alongside, its famed shopping. Most surprising, however, is the concentration of furniture stores at 59th and Third Avenue, at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge. Does the cluster serve Queens residents as they leave Manhattan, or was this location best, decades ago, for Queens furniture makers to sell their work in the city?
The sub-basement of Grand Central Terminal is New York City’s deepest basement, at least that’s what they’ll tell you. It’s also likely the safest and one of the most secure places in all of the 5 boroughs. It was never included on blueprints for the building, and its exact location remains confidential to this day. To make it all the more mysterious, the room is called M-42, which sounds like something straight out of The X-Files.
we had a little get-together for investors at kcbcbeer.com, a new brewery opening in bushwick in spring 2016.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 