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Wrecking Ball

The Tenement Museum memorializes working-class families even as it evicts them.

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The higher the New York observatory experience climbs, the dumber it gets.

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New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.

Less a menacing monument to imminent doom than a superfluous, almost decadent by-product of capitalism gone awry

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Bringing down the Mouse

Wrecking Ball

306 West 142nd Street—a condo building two blocks from St. Nicholas Park—is no longer a part of my personal stomping grounds. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have beef.

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Why would you put someone who didn’t think art was very good in charge of designing an art museum?

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A whole lot of people who are not me should have been paying attention a lot sooner.

I could describe The Hub for you, but what’s the point? You already know what it looks like.

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The MTA thinks it can teach us something about beauty. Get outta here!

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Like with much of what is spewed out of New York’s over-hyped, PR-industrial complex, a closer look at Central Park reveals a thin green veneer covering a hollow and tired system.

By far the museum’s most grievous offense is how brazenly it seeks to be noticed.