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James Barron

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World
9 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — There is the $72 million apartment, so large it runs the full length of one side of the Plaza Hotel, with windows overlooking Central Park. A second Manhattan apartment is high up in one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, along the so-called Billionaires’ Row.
Selling the Warhol: Their Bitter Divorce Leaves an Art Trove
World
7 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Aakash Anand, who was on his way to Kennedy International Airport, looked out the window at the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. “I’m not sitting in that bumper-to-bumper traffic,” he said happily.
Hailing a Helicopter to Beat the Traffic
World
6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Alex Kalman does things that Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art do not, like sweeping the street in front of his museum.
In an Elevator Shaft, Lifting Up the Ordinary
World
6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — In the 1980s, New York City sent photographers to every building and every lot in every borough. The city had done the same thing in the 1930s as part of a program to make tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
Block by Block, Looking Back as New York City Changes
World
6 Aug 2024
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
World
6 Aug 2024
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
World
6 Aug 2024
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
World
5 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — The 15 or 20 minutes before the performance ticked by the same way they do on nights when Rome Neal presides over jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. But this time Neal was directing a reading of a play. It takes aim at the sensation that is the theatrical juggernaut “Hamilton” and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So
World
2 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — In the late 1930s and early 1940s, New York City sent photographers to every building in every borough in an attempt to make property tax assessments fairer and more accurate. The result was more than 700,000 black-and-white snapshots of everything from fashionable apartment buildings in Manhattan to out-of-the-way houses on Staten Island. The city recently had the images digitized.
World
2 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — In the late 1930s and early 1940s, New York City sent photographers to every building in every borough in an attempt to make property tax assessments fairer and more accurate. The result was more than 700,000 black-and-white snapshots of everything from fashionable apartment buildings in Manhattan to an out-of-the-way diner on Staten Island. The city recently had the images digitized.