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Begun in 1994 as a 30-gallery event in the Gramercy Park Hotel, the Armory Show has blossomed into a world-renowned art fair hosting 168 galleries from around the world and drawing enormous crowds to witness the art of today. The Armory Show 2002 took place on Piers 88 and 90—two enormous exhibition spaces by the Hudson River. Galleries are arranged in several long rows of booths that span the length of each pier...
...West, where Palmer also performed, the system was much more formalized. Performers entertaining on a single pier divided themselves into a hierarchy of five classes, based on history and type of performance. Every night, they drew straws to determine who performed where...
...heart--until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans--a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties--Giuliani shook the candidates down: either agree to give him three extra...
...heart - until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans - a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow of the crumbling Twin Towers, and a large Tupperware container of Wheaties - Giuliani shook the candidates down: either agree to give him three extra...
...collapsed at 9:50 a.m. I had just finished calling my boyfriend in Boston, who would then call my parents in Hong Kong, when we heard another loud noise and saw a large cloud of smoke coming towards us. Everyone was again screaming and running towards the pier. After we had run a few more blocks, Kristin, Kersten, Dee and I decided that the safest thing to do would be to walk uptown...