Spencer Finch Piece Installed on the High Line (High Line Blog) The River That Flows Both Ways, is made up of 700 individual panes of glass, each hued to represent a color of light reflected off the Hudson River.
Free Family Friendly Shakespeare—Beyond the Park (Mommy Poppins) From “Shakespeare on the Run” where the audience literally has to chase the performers to the comedic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, there’s plenty of more accessible Shakespeare to be seen
Gunnery, new and old (Tugster: A Waterblog) Why is this bollard so strangely shaped? It’s a repurposed cannon in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In this case, as weapons systems were upgraded, older tubes were redefined, not scrapped.
Metro-North station opens at Yankee Stadium (MTA) “Today, it has finally arrived. The new Yankees – E. 153rd Street MTA Metro-North Railroad station is the first railroad station to open anywhere in the Bronx in decades.”
Q&A with Danny Meyer (Wall Street Journal, via @palafo and @mollyblock) There is an enormous amount of discounting going on, which is highly unusual in our end of the business. I understand the rationale for discounting now because there is 20% to 25% less demand for restaurant seats than there was a year to a year and a half ago.
International Art & Design Fair cancels fall NY dates (Antiques Trade Gazette via ArtInfo and ArtNet) Fairs at the Park Avenue Armory on Upper East Side are especially vulnerable to the recession – the Armory is famously expensive and payment is in advance – and this is the Haughtons’ second casualty of the year following the cancellation of the International Asian Art Fair planned for March.
