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Step one is to co-opt the bastions of middle-class urbanism. There are three Gaps within a 10-block radius of Astor Place in Greenwich Village, and there are more and more as you move uptown. No longer can the city claim to be hipper than the suburbs: everyone wears Gap, and every Gap is good...
Sunday: The Maltese Falcon. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet...
...hyperambitious baby boomers to the canyons of Wall Street and midtown Manhattan. Nicknamed "the Erector set," a stable of real estate developers transformed the cityscape, throwing up 50 million sq. ft. of glistening office monoliths within Manhattan alone. New fortunes upended the city's social lineage, shoving Rockefeller and Astor aside for Trump, Steinberg and Kravis. The new barons redefined wealth beyond Jay Gatsby's wildest dreams, ensconcing themselves in palatial aeries groaning with old masters and nouveau exorbitance...
...N.Y.P.L. Healy has his work cut out for him. Despite its name, the library is a private institution and has just come through a $304 million fund drive in which Gregorian, philanthropist Brooke Astor and board chairman Andrew Heiskell shook every money tree in the city. Gregorian restored the splendid beaux arts edifice on 42nd Street, eliminated a years-long lag in cataloging and listed all publications after 1972 on a computer. Then he departed to be president of Brown University where, presumably, he will charm the birds out of the Rhode Island foliage...
Appraising the swollen cattle as they weighed in, Henry Astor allowed as how he had bought "a fine herd." The next morning he looked out over a group of scrawny, dehydrated creatures. "I have been sold watered stock!" he bellowed, and Wall Street gained a new term for swindle...