Destination: New York
Revisiting the Verve and Glamour of the Young Jet Age
by Michael Yessis | 02.14.03 | 4:16 PM ET
Salon’s “Ask the Pilot” has a great riff on airport terminal architecture, with a focus on the beauty and fate of the Space Age terminal at New York’s JFK airport. Even if you haven’t been through the Eero Saarinen-designed building, you’ve probably seen it in the movies. Most recently, Spielberg featured it in “Catch Me If You Can.” The “Pilot” also continues a previous discussion about airplanes and Hollywood.
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Yahoo! BuzzCruise Ships: The New Homeless Shelters?
by Michael Yessis | 11.24.02 | 5:37 PM ET
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other local government officials are exploring whether the luxury ships tied up at city docks could be used as temporary housing for the homeless. One official says they’re “thinking outside the box.”
They’re not. It’s an old idea that dates to the 14th century Europe, at least, according to a New York Times story. It’s even been tried before in NYC. Writes Barbara Stewart: “In 1898, New York City put homeless men—or tramps, as they were called—on ships, after Theodore Roosevelt, serving as president of the Board of Police Commissioners, gave his officers two weeks to stop housing tramps in police stations.”
New Hotels for Global Nomads: ‘The Crossroads of Our Connected Yet Nomadic Society’
by Michael Yessis | 11.12.02 | 12:43 AM ET
The Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City recently opened its “New Hotels for Global Nomads” exhibition, and the reviews are rolling in.
Christopher Reynolds of the Los Angeles Times offered a detailed piece in Saturday’s edition while last week the Globe and Mail’s Barbara Aria wrote that “the fantasy of stepping out of the you whose life you live and into someone else’s silk pajamas” permeates the show.
If, like me, you find this show potentially fascinating but aren’t going to be in New York before the show closes March 2, be sure to visit the online exhibition. The first-class multimedia presentation brings pieces of the exhibition home and showcases the Web at its best.
September 11 Makes its Way Into New York Guidebooks
by Jim Benning | 02.19.02 | 2:35 PM ET
Also in the Sunday’s New York Times, Joseph Siano examines how guidebooks to New York are treating the devastation of September 11: “The creators of the Michelin Green Guide and the Mobil Travel Guide series, along with other publishers, had to quickly revamp their 2002 editions on New York to reflect a city whose social, financial and geographic landscape was violently altered.”
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