Hi all. I hope you are enjoying your spring break. We are going to make a slight change to the schedule. On Wednesday, we will talk about the city and the future. Our discussion on “Just Kids” by Patti Smith will begin Monday, May 2.
Here are some links to the reading for Wednesday’s class:
A New York magazine real estate article from a few years back, “New York in 2016.” There are 11 sections.
http://nymag.com/realestate/features/2016/17143/
A Bloomberg administration document laying out its plan for New York City in 2030
I was researching for my finaly project on Public art and came across this amazing website- Street Art Utopia. It a culmination of breathtaking artwork all around the world. I just wanted to share this little bit of inspiration.
The very first lines of this article held me captive. I personally love giving people my view point as to what to do in NYC, where to go, what to eat. I enjoy this so much so, that I have a document on my desktop, “NYC,” that I add on to whenever I find something new myself, keeping it updated and ready for that unsuspecting visitor. National Geographic had written an article full of interviews from New Yorkers and their experience and opinions of the Big Apple which can be found here:
Built in the late 19th Century, this was the Germania Bank (after numerous mergers and acquisitions, it is now better known as J.P. Morgan) Building. The six-story, 72-room bank was bought by artist Jay Maisel in 1966 for $102,000, who remains its current owner. Estimates of the buildings worth run from a conservative $30 million to a whopping $70 million.
Albert is a young artist who lives in NY since 2003. He works full time for Jeff Koons Studio and manages to find time to do his own work. He deals in hyper realism, history, and identity.
His speech is extremely paced so the video is longer than 3 minutes.
I just wanted to share this story about the fire at Willets Point. As you guys know, because of the fire, my boyfriend and I were prevented from entering into that region. We had to wait a long time, when it was dark out, before we could venture back in again.
George is lucky enough to be able to do what he loves for a living: snowboard. He not only manages a store for Volcom, a company that has been involved in the snowboarding scene for 15 years now, but also runs bus trips to Hunter Mountain on Sundays for OVR Ride, a New York City based company that organizes trips to various mountains. After sitting down with him to discuss what it takes to be a snowboarder in the city, and what keeps him from moving closer to the mountains, it was easy to see how much love he has for the sport which is what makes him such a good ambassador for it.
Tiffany is a Kansas-bred transplant who’s never given up her out-of-towner zeal for this city. Six years into her own New York Story, Tiffany is now a blogger and the coordinator of the New York City Food Crawls.
