This stretch might just as well refer to the distance spanned if you lined up, ends to end, all the paperweights, mouse pads, and refrigerator magnets with reproductions of famous paintings on them. Leggi tutto.
“Nancy told me Lon Havemeyer was in town and waiting that very moment to go with us to the Metropolitan Museum.” —Peter Taylor, “A Sentimental Journey” Leggi tutto.
“This is loaded with subtle shit,” Apple store architect Peter Q. Bohlin explained of his new building in a May, 2010 Talk of the Town piece. Leggi tutto.
The founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, often bought not the best work of the artist, which the artist might hope to be able to sell elsewhere, but the second best, which nobody else would have. Leggi tutto.
A peacock once escaped from the zoo and settled into the fifth-floor ledge of an Upper East Side building, capturing the attention of kids, cops, tourists, and Rupert Murdoch. Leggi tutto.
Don’t miss the basement around Christmastime “by thoughtlessly choosing to go to Europe instead.” It’s “a high adventure in smells”: bacon, leather, “rayon undies.” Leggi tutto.
“Immaculate, rectilinear, capacious, and chaste,” John Updike wrote in 2004 after the museum’s renovation. Leggi tutto.
Frida Kahlo once told the New Yorker that her husband, Diego Rivera, lost a whopping hundred and twenty-five pounds while painting the controversial Rockefeller Center frescoes. Leggi tutto.
“Kerouac’s crutches are kept in the Berg. / Is not this the greatest of institutions, / With levels we both know nothing about?” – Michael Longley, “In the New York Public Library” Leggi tutto.
Is the Empire State Building the center of a second Bermuda Triangle? Lizzie Widdicombe investigated with an Internet-purchased radio-wave meter and a veteran cab driver… Leggi tutto.
Books-by-the-Foot service provides ready-made libraries. “Bargain books,” a random selection of hardbacks, is the cheapest, at ten dollars a foot. For thirty dollars, clients can customize the color. Leggi tutto.
Architect Daniel Libeskind’s plan strikes “a careful balance between commemorating the lives lost and reëstablishing the life of the site itself.” Leggi tutto.
Fed up with the lines for the Holiday Train Show? Get a year’s membership ($75) to get access to special members-only days for the garden’s big exhibits. Leggi tutto.
A vacant storefront was transformed into a makeup shop for The Smurfs movie. It was so convincing that passersby actually tried to enter it. Leggi tutto.
When the New York Times moved into offices at Broadway and 42nd Street on Dec 31, 1904, it threw a party so legendary that New Yorkers started to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square every year. Leggi tutto.
The giant anchorages of this suspension bridge were supposed to double as shopping arcades. The inside of each features the same Gothic design as the towers, plus 50-foot-high cathedral ceilings. Leggi tutto.