Word: manhattanization
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Everybody gets into the pool at one point or another in Mary Zimmerman's entrancing theater piece Metamorphoses. But somehow it's the audience that feels most refreshed. This off-Broadway show--which opened at Manhattan's Second Stage Theatre in October and has been such a hit that it's planning a move to Broadway in February--is theater as primal as it is charming. Zimmerman likes to say the playwright and audience are "collaborating in a dream," and she has brought some of humanity's oldest dreams--Greek myths--to shimmering life...
...STORES Outside, windows reflect a new mood, above; inside, it's a buyer's market as some chains quietly allow haggling, stores increase sale goods 15% and one Manhattan boutique offers free massage. Even chilly Bergdorf Goodman is playing to whim--and wallet--with free drinks, TVs airing sports and its first ever Santa Claus...
...when it came time for Sherwood to retire from his imported-knitwear business, he and his wife could logically have settled in Florida. But they wouldn't hear of it. Instead, they sold their house on Long Island and moved just 20 miles away to an apartment in Manhattan. There, instead of the warmth and tranquillity of the South, they enjoy the culture and vibrancy of the city--and, above all, the proximity of their two daughters and four grandchildren. "We love having the city right here at our fingertips, and it is so important to us to have...
...impact of Sept. 11 on fashion was visible that very morning. High-heeled shoes that had been kicked off the feet of women fleeing the Twin Towers were part of the detritus littering lower Manhattan. New York women haven't put them back on since. Slacks and flat shoes, clothes one can run in, are the must-have items for Manhattan...
...bring bags into movies—consumers are meant to believe that these draconian measures are for our own security, and not for the security of Hoyts’ tremendous concession markup. The Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square, whose glass elevators tourists eager to zoom 45 stories above Manhattan have sardined into during countless past Thanksgivings, this year required room keys for entry into its lobby. Meanwhile, at Penn Station in New York City, no one without a train ticket could sit in the waiting area’s rows of grimy chairs...