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Critic's Notebook: Defending the Former American Folk Art Museum Building
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Faced with a storm of protests, the Modern stepped back from its plan to demolish its diminutive neighbor on West 53rd Street, the former American Folk Art Museum , a striking sliver of a building designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, admired in
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NYC library to be housed in base of hi-rise
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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The New York Public Library's new Donnell Library in midtown Manhattan will be housed in a new hotel and condominium hi-rise. The $20 million design features a wall of glass at street level revealing bleacher seating. The library is slated to open in
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Why Is the Museum of Modern Art Dead Set on Perpetrating a Hideous Act of Architecture-cide?
Dallas :: TX :: USA | 2 months ago
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The most astonishing thing about the Museum of Modern Art's announcement last week that it intends to tear down the former American Folk Art Museum on West 53rd Street was the rationale MoMA offered for this appalling decision. According to a report
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5th Avenue Subway Station Traps Unwary Riders Behind Locked Exit
Madrid :: Spain | 4 months ago
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At 5th Avenue Station, Riders Find an Exit Trap Richard Perry/The New York Times Daniel Martinez, a station agent, shuts a gate at the Fifth Avenue-53rd Street station that keeps people away from a blocked exit. Published: February 27, 2013 The
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U of C pursues building 267-unit apartment building on 53rd
Cook :: NE :: USA | 4 months ago
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Artist rendering of proposed apartment building at 1330 E...Provided image The University of Chicago, encouraged by early success of its Harper Court redevelopment, is pushing forward with plans to build a retail and apartment building less than a
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Gas leak at closed Kansas City school forces street closures
Kansas City :: KS :: USA | 5 months ago
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More News January 28 Police have closed the blocks around former elementary school after a gas line was cut inside the building, causing a leak. Firefighters are on the scene of the leak at the closed Chick Elementary School at 4101 E...Police are
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5 Things to Do in New York's Art World Before January 1
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago
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Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom at MoMA Released in 1975, the year that Pasolini was murdered, Salo , which is based on the Marquis de Sade's book 120 Days of Sodom , tells the story, in graphic detail, of Italian fascists abusing and humiliating a
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Art Garfunkel: My New York
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 months ago
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December 8, 2012 Art Garfunkel, 71, was born and raised in Forest Hills, Queens, but his greatest thrill was becoming successful enough to move to Manhattan...Garfunkel has lived in the same apartment off the Park since 1975, a year that marked the
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Square Feet: University of Chicago Helps Revitalize 53rd Street Retail District
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
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The University of Chicago is midway through what it characterizes as a once in a generation community redevelopment effort aimed at revitalizing 53rd Street, a blighted retail district several blocks north of its historic Hyde Park campus here.
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Water Main Break Slows Down Midtown Subway
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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Crews are working to cleanup an early morning water main break Wednesday in Midtown. It happened around 4 a.m. on 53rd Street between Second and Third Avenues. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says the incident knocked out power at the
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