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...another shot at the comforts of home--walls of undulating glass, private bowling alleys, state-of-the-art everything. In addition to another Meier tower, three high-end condo projects are in the works. For his first apartment building, architect Charles Gwathmey is transforming a former parking lot in Greenwich Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building's multifaceted exterior is chiseled like a precious stone--befitting the multimillion-dollar lofts inside. Further south, just across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, the landmark Equitable Trust Building will soon become Downtown by Philippe Starck...
DIED. HOWARD SOLOMON, 75, former owner of Cafe au Go Go, the basement nightclub in Greenwich Village where the comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested on obscenity charges in 1964; of a heart attack; in Crestline, Calif. Five years after being arrested with Bruce, Solomon sold his club and moved to Florida, where he worked as a real estate developer...
...Wonderful Town" is based on "My Sister Eileen," the 1942 hit Broadway comedy about two sisters, intellectual Ruth and blond knockout Eileen, who emigrate from Ohio to a basement flat in Greenwich Village - Ruth looking to be a writer, Eileen with dreams of musical stardom. The musical version, composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyricists Comden and Green, arrived on Broadway in 1953, with Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Edith Adams (later Ernie Kovacs' Edie Adams) as Eileen. The show, which lasted a year, didn't spawn the hits that Bernstein's "On the Town" and "West Side Story...
...Ledeckys moved to the affluent New York suburb of Greenwich, Conn. for Ledecky’s father?...
Editor-at-large Claudia Wallis traveled to New Haven, Conn., and New York City's Greenwich Village to meet Kelly Brownell and Marion Nestle, two of a group of scientists she came to think of as the Obesity Warriors. "I was struck by how passionate they are," she recalls. "It reminds me of the scientists I met in the early days of the environmental movement...