Life in New York has revolved around one thing for the past week — basketball. Nothing else seems to matter! The Knicks are New York’s basketball team. Despite being based…
Today I had the chance to attend the opening of an exhibition that will arguably be the quietest place in the city this summer. French artist and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s…
Today I saw a Cooling Center and decided to cool off and find out more. It turns out that New York City opens Cooling Centers during extreme heat waves, when…
A statue from Afghanistan in New York? Not quite, but the new public art in the famous High Line Park is indeed a reference to the Bamiyan Buddhas (6th century!),…
New York City continues to grow, and the last fifteen years have seen one of the most active periods in the history of high-rise construction. Manhattan has seen the emergence…
Vandalism is common in New York City, especially in the subway. But recently, a unique kind of civil resistance to artificial intelligence has emerged. The city’s subway system is increasingly…
Yesterday in New York, the premiere of The Naked Woman took place, and Waso Danilenko watched it with great pleasure: The story begins during the winter holidays in a country…
The Takashimaya Building at 693 Fifth Avenue is a postmodern 20-story skyscraper in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, situated between 53rd and 54th Streets. The building brings together the legacy…
On White Street, in the heart of trendy Tribeca, stands a building that immediately stands out among the red brick lofts of the 19th century. From the street, you can…
If New York’s most famous cemetery — we’re talking, of course, about Green-Wood — were to hold a tombstone beauty contest, the judges would have a tough time. After all,…