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Gold’s traditional role as a store of wealth has been usurped by contemporary art and apartments in cities such as New York and London, according to Laurence D. Fink, head of the world’s biggest asset manager. “Historically gold was a great instrument for storing of wealth,” the chairman of BlackRock Inc. said at a conference…
Los Angeles spends more than $100 million a year coping with homelessness, including as much as $87 million that goes to arrests, skid row patrols and mental health interventions, according to a report released Thursday. City librarians, recreation and parks, sanitation and paramedics also devote significant resources to handling homeless people, without clear guidelines or…
The shower-in-the-kitchen thing is like the unicorn of bad NYC real estate. Occasionally you hear about them, but only a few people have actually seen them. Others have only seen them in movies—a well-placed design element for added comedic “Only In New York” effect. But they are real, they are out there, and the kind…
A five-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom townhouse on West 101st Street has hit the market for the first time in almost 40 years. Owned by artist Annette Oko, whotook over the deed in 1978, the house is part of a group of six sister brownstones on the block and, according to the brokerbabble, has appeared in movies such as the The Chosen and Woody Allen’s Shadow and…
In San Francisco’s “culture war,” both sides espouse oddly similar-sounding values. Credit Illustration by Christian Gralingen In the spiritual geography of San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall—a glass-and-concrete half rotunda much resembling R2-D2’s neckline—sits between hills steep with layered mansions and the urban basin where the city’s gritty elements now rest. John Adams’s “Harmonielehre” premièred here;…
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Photo A mural by Max Spivak at the base of the 5 Bryant Park office tower in Manhattan includes shapes that appear abstract at first, but closer inspection reveals them to be textile makers’ tools, like a T-square, above the entrance. Credit Michael Appleton for The New York Times The shadows of West 40th Street…
Copp on Copp (Getty Images) David Copperfield, arguably the most successful magician in the world this side of The Gothic Castle, may be dealing with his toughest audience ever right now: furious Manhattan neighbors. According to the Post, Copperfield’s penthouse swimming pool in his East 57th Street apartment spontaneously burst and flooded his apartment, as…
He was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation. Photo: Jacqueline Roberts HTML COMPONENT MARKUP BEGIN Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design an architectural extravagance at ground zero. He succeeded, an accomplishment that threatens to destroy his reputation. HTML COMPONENT MARKUP END Santiago…
When New York City’s cultural czars revealed the choice of a new piece of public art for Long Island City late last year, the response was swift and withering. Residents of the Queens neighborhood and others lit into the proposal — an eight-foot-long reclining human form painted vibrant pink — saying it was too bright,…