More NY: Tim Gunn, Coney's star, 'Coraline' reviews
Tim Gunn peruses the New York Public Library’s hidden fashion gems with Clayton Kirking, NYPL chief of art & information services. On NYPL’s YouTube channel.
Astroland star going from Coney to Smithsonian (National Air and Space Museum press release) Next week another huge star will arrive to stay—the 8-foot-high lighted star from Coney Island’s now closed space-age theme park, Astroland, will join the museum’s popular culture collection where it will be housed along other science fiction icons such as the Star Trek starship Enterprise. The Star will go on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center after construction of Phase Two of the center is completed in 2011.
Mere 4 pct tourism decline predicted (Crain’s) The city’s tourism bureau, NYC & Company, is predicting that more than 12 million visitors will arrive here during June, July and August. That’s just 4% below last summer’s levels, and a far better performance than experts had predicted.
Review roundup of “Coraline” Off-Broadway (Critic-o-Meter) While this adventurous Off-Broadway musicalization of Neil Gaiman’s dark fairy tale has some full-throated partisans who find it an imagination-stirring romp, most reviews are decidedly mixed on the production’s seam-showing, low-tech approach.
Q&A with Ruth Reichl, editor in chief of Gourmet (Midtown Lunch) Favorite Place(s) to Eat Lunch in Midtown: The Mysore masala dosa, saag paneer, and brinjal bhartha at Minar (on 46th btw. 6+7th.) White rice, chicken, all the vegetables, no white sauce at the Halal Chicken Curry Cart (on 43rd and 6th.) …
$10 million more donated to High Line park (NY Times) The first phase of the High Line, which runs from Gansevoort Street in the meatpacking district to 20th Street, is to open this month. The meandering path 30 feet above the street — with plantings and water areas designed by Field Operations, a landscape architecture company, and Diller Scofidio & Renfro, the architectural firm — will ultimately extend to 34th Street.
Yankee Stadium home-run hitters have winds at their backs (USA Today) According to the Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., there is a 40% chance of above-average temperatures for the next three months in New York, and warm weather will only help the baseballs travel farther.
