That could cause a passenger pileup on a landing halfway up. The installation “couldn’t have something that required a narrative element that would force you to pause midride,” Scheier-Dolberg said. But Scheier-Dolberg said there were practical considerations that posed challenges to the project. Scheier-Dolberg said that basing the installation on Asian art and especially Chinese ceramics was appropriate because they have long been displayed on the second-floor balcony of the Great Hall, where the escalator takes its riders. “You’re kind of climbing the tree as you go up,” he said. They draw on motifs from two Qing-dynasty-style vases he found in the Met’s collection, with magnolias, hydrangeas and tree peonies on one side and magpies and plum blossoms on the other. The panels he installed reach to the ceiling. The museum is seeking evidence of the claims. Lost artifacts: Cambodia suspects that many of its lost artifacts were looted and has concerns about a former curator’s business relationship with a Metropolitan Museum of Art donor later accused of antiquities trafficking.
Party at the farm: With a summer schedule packed with dinners, concerts and dances, community-minded farms are as social as a country club. Monkeypox vaccine disparities: New York City released new data on Thursday showing racial disparities in monkeypox vaccine access, with far fewer Black people receiving doses of the vaccine.Ī devastating fire: One of the main buildings of the Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, which inspired the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing,” was demolished after a fire sent up a column of smoke that was visible for several miles. Here are some things to know about congestion pricing. $23 for a rush hour trip into Midtown? It could soon be more expensive to drive through Manhattan’s most densely packed streets, as a tolling program crossed a major hurdle this month. Tonight the sky will be clear to partly cloudy with above-average temps in the mid-70s. High pressure will bring on another sunny and very warm day with negligible wind and a high in the upper 80s. “It’s been a hard two years for an industry, with all they have to manage and the slim profit margins that they have,” she said, adding that Portland’s City Council had approved regulations to expand outdoor dining. She said she sympathized with the problems restaurants have had.
In Portland, Maine, where bars and restaurants can stay open until 1 a.m., “you might want to reference the fact that if you walked around our old port now, you’ll find a lot of New York plates,” said Jessica Grondin, the city’s communications director. In fact, we don’t even take a nap.”Īdams did not specify which Portland he was thinking of. We keep it going - the city that never sleeps.
In fact, if we close down at 5 p.m., we should be Portland. I see throughout the night how we are a thriving city. and everything in between,” he said, “and I think for far too long, leaders of the city have only acknowledged that 9-to-5 operation. And opponents have gone to court over City Hall’s push to make dining sheds permanent. “We have dozens of sheds that fall in that category,” she said. Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi said the city was also targeting sheds with “egregious violations,” including blocking access for the Fire Department. Officials said that abandoned outdoor restaurant structures represented a small fraction of the 13,000 restaurants that had taken part in the Open Restaurants program. “I have a New York nose,” he said, “and listen, someone has used this as a urinal because I can clearly smell it.” “It can’t be a safe haven for illegal behavior.” And, when asked what complaints he had heard about sheds, he mentioned another problem. Outdoor dining “can’t be a safe haven for rats,” Adams said. Officials said the Department of Parks and Recreation had assisted with an initial blitz on problem streeteries. “What I want to say, loud and clear, as much as I can have a hand in it, is outdoor dining is here to stay,” he said.īut he called the “blight and disorder” at some sheds “unacceptable” and promised that a new task force would work to see that outdoor dining was “safe, clean and respectable.” He said the task force would be led by two city departments - transportation and sanitation - with assistance from the police. Adams defended outdoor dining - “it saved 100,000 jobs” in the restaurant industry during the pandemic, he said - and said that it should be a permanent part of city life.
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