Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene had changed since he first started covering business news in 1952. "The World Trade Center has obliterated a number of cheap Irish bars where one used to be able to get a bowl of stew and a beer for 70?," he reports. "The discount radio stores have moved uptown, and Trinity Church now hosts a rock group at midday instead of a choir." Even so, adds Tompkins, "covering Wall Street is like watching a floating crap game. The scene drifts, the players change, but the game goes...
...join the Lost Generation. It was going to be ortolans all the way. But that winter the family fortune showed signs of imminent collapse. Early in 1927, West found himself working as night manager in a seedy little Manhattan hotel on 23rd Street called Kenmore Hall; later, he moved uptown as manager of the shabby-genteel Sutton Club Hotel...
MIDWEST. While Chicago had a minor incident in the uptown section of the North Side last week, Deputy Police Su; perintendent Samuel Nolan is "not anticipating any serious problems-though > we recognize the possibilities at any given time." The Rev. Calvin Morris, a J, black who is Chicago director of Operation Breadbasket, disagrees: "We're 1 in store for a lot of trouble. People are I tense and mistrustful, and the police are tense and mistrustful." In the De? troit area, Wayne County Sheriff William Lucas expects some flare-ups in the inner city but worse incidents in suburbs...
...outsiders braved SoHo's trash and traffic except architecture buffs, who admired the area's Italianate cast-iron facades. But for some 2,000 to 3,000 artists today, the neighborhood has become a last refuge from the high rents, cramped spaces and commercial pressures uptown...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...