Tag: NYC
You can tell that the people who designed the layout and exhibits at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum were inspired in part by a very well done monument to …
Remember that scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally, when Sally, er, rather vocally shows Harry how to fake the “throes of passion,” and a woman sitting near …
I should have known better than to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge this past Sunday, which was probably one of the best days of this New York City summer. …
If a bug lands on me, I’m just this side of hysterical at absolute best. I wrote that sentence last week in this space, and I thought of it …
I haven’t been to the Bronx Zoo in years — for no good reason, really, other than it has always seemed to me like something you do with kids, …
Construction workers were all set to place a spire atop One World Trade Center yesterday, which would have made it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The spire, …
Paper Like Skin, an exhibit by the artist Zarina, is not the flashiest on view at the Guggeheim at the moment, but in a quiet way, it got at …
From the window of the Manhattan apartment where I have taken refuge from my sudden divorce, I can see the Freedom Tower under construction, glass skin steadily creeping up …
I almost walked right past it, until the little historical plaque happened to catch my eye. Today it’s called the Brown Building and is part of NYU (New York …
I saw this in a blurb in Real Simple magazine and had to go look at it….graphic designer Chris Peck put together a video of what he says is …
You have to stop walking, breathe deeply and let the moment ooze into your brain. A building or monument that had previously been part of your travel dreams is …
One of my favorite places in Manhattan is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (see more in The American story is alive at this New York Museum.) I tell …