New York Remakes Itself, 30 Feet Above The Pavement

June 8, 2011

There are two ways a great city can maintain itself. There is the Paris way, in which the monumental architecture of long ago is locked in place while modern development is shunted far from the core, and there is the New York way, in which the core is constantly torn down and rebuilt. Or, occasionally, simply repurposed. Today marks the opening of the second stage of New York’s High Line …

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A 100-Year Promise (Picture Frame Not Included)

September 3, 2010

Not long ago, I paid $25 at an antiques store to buy an old $1,000 bond that now hangs, framed, in our office in Scarsdale, N.Y. The beautifully engraved bond was issued by the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway Company, a newly organized subsidiary of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, on Oct. 1, 1891. It recites that the railroad “acknowledges itself indebted to the bearer hereof in the sum of One Thousand …

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