Author: Editor-in-Chief
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On Fifth Avenue, the Stores Got Bigger
Moncler’s largest store in the world in the old FAO Schwarz, Saint Laurent signing at Kering’s 717 Fifth, Madison’s youth movement and Hermès in Williamsburg. The retail apocalypse has a dress code.
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Last Call at Jake’s Dilemma
After 32 years of game days, first dates and shots of Tully, the Upper West Side sports bar closes Sunday. The building sold; the space is pitched for ‘upscale sit-down dining.’ The party moves a few doors up Amsterdam.
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Five Weeks on One Track
The Portal North Bridge cutover has thinned Acela, Keystone and NJ Transit service into Penn Station through Nov. 15. What changed, why it’s worth it, and how to reach Philadelphia without losing your mind.
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Cayman Airways Says Goodbye to a Terminal That Isn’t Leaving
The island carrier flies its last JFK route Monday, timed to Terminal 1’s planned closure. But the New Terminal One has slipped to 2027, and United opens Newark–St. Croix on Halloween. Your winter-escape map, redrawn.
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Roy Lichtenstein, Like New? The Critics Can’t Agree, Which Is the Fun Part
The Whitney’s first New York Lichtenstein retrospective since 1993 argues the Pop master foresaw the age of AI images. ARTnews found it stylish; Jerry Saltz found it a letdown. Both have a point.
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‘The Rothko Hit Us’: Sotheby’s Sells the Baums’ $100 Million Eye
Sotheby’s will offer the collection of Ted and Ruth Baum, estimated above $100 million and led by a 1967 Rothko on paper, beginning Nov. 16. In a season of trophy estates, it is a portrait of a marriage and a taste.
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Two Wilsons and a Conservator: The American Academy in Rome Brings the Classics to the Library
On Oct. 29 the American Academy in Rome will give its Centennial Medal to Suzanne Deal Booth, the translator Emily Wilson and the artist Fred Wilson at its New York Gala. A dinner for people who make old things speak.
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Angels, Demons and Cynthia Erivo: ABT’s Fall Gala Gets Into the Halloween Spirit
American Ballet Theatre will honor Cynthia Erivo at its Oct. 29 Fall Gala, a Halloween-tinged program curated by Susan Jaffe. The chairs’ list, as ever, is a society column in itself.
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Stevie Nicks, a Simone Rocha Duet and $3.45 Million: City Ballet’s Fashion Gala Turns 14
New York City Ballet’s Fall Fashion Gala raised $3.45 million on Oct. 1, with Stevie Nicks as honorary chair and three new ballets dressed by Viktor&Rolf, Simone Rocha and Robert Wun. It remains the rare party that is really about the performance.
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Clinton Hill’s New Record Was Never on the Market
An 1880 townhouse at 374 Washington Avenue sold off-market for $9.4 million, toppling the storied Pfizer Mansion as the Brooklyn neighborhood’s priciest sale. Provenance gets you in the door; the renovation closes the deal.
