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Fidel Castro arrived at JFK Airport in the middle of lunch hour and snarled traffic into midtown Manhattan. Shortly before, China's President Jiang Zemin had arrived and headed for the Waldorf Astoria, where President Clinton is also staying. But that posed a problem, because Castro and the Chinese president had planned to hold bilateral talks. If the meeting was held at the Waldorf, you could have U.S. and Cuban delegates crossing paths and some words. So the meeting was moved (in secret) to Cuba's fortresslike U.N. mission on Lexington Avenue...
They were sitting in an upscale bar in midtown Manhattan several weeks ago when they struck up a conversation with a man (well dressed, in his late thirties, alone at the bar, reading a book about Africa...
...feel "like you were being cradled in a beautiful space." Maybe Gehry should have designed the Esalen Institute, given how much he talks about spaces that hug people. But sitting with him last week in the cafeteria he created for the headquarters of the Conde Nast publishing firm in midtown Manhattan, you could see what he means. The blue titanium walls bulge toward you like expectant mothers. The circular banquettes are surrounded by floor-to-ceiling sheets of plate glass, but each of them is uniquely curved and torqued so that together they form a voluptuous encirclement all around...
Investigators termed Fitzpatrick's death an apparent suicide. She was struck by a northbound subway train in midtown Manhattan at night...
...instant-messaging company, has been alternating between his bike and his Xootr for the eight-mile commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan. "It takes me an extra hour by scooter," says Becker, "but it's a great workout, it's fun, and it's a lot easier to ride through Midtown. Plus, people look at me and say, That man is having fun! I remember fun." But will they remember the scooter next Christmas...