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To paddle the Gowanus of today is to encounter a body of water that is neither fully alive nor quite dead.
I’m not sure how I feel about a team many times the size of the New York Philharmonic fine-tuning a formula of Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson hits with which to drip-feed me throughout the day. Actually, I take that back. I hate it.
When Four Freedoms finally opened in 2012, Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman described the park as “monumental triumph for New York” and its “new spiritual heart.” I can’t say I’ve ever seen what Kimmelman saw.
At Lil Sweet Treat, everything is cute, infantilized, little—even the word itself.
125 pages of Adobe Creative Suite, social media activism, and farm-to-table dinner parties culminate in the bathetic labors of running an agriturismo on an inherited Mediterranean property.
Like Shakespeare’s Prospero—who ultimately abjures his “rough magic” and drowns his book of spells—Kabat implies that addressing climate crisis requires not merely technological innovation but philosophical reorientation.
The Settlement’s communitarian, social-reformist spirit embedded itself in the Lower East Side, including in its architecture.
