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James Barron

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Kenya The New York Times world
19 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — There is the $72 million apartment, so large it runs the full length of one side of the Plaza Hotel, with windows overlooking Central Park. A second Manhattan apartment is high up in one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, along the so-called Billionaires’ Row.
Selling the Warhol: Their Bitter Divorce Leaves an Art Trove
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Aakash Anand, who was on his way to Kennedy International Airport, looked out the window at the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. “I’m not sitting in that bumper-to-bumper traffic,” he said happily.
Hailing a Helicopter to Beat the Traffic
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Six people, including four children, were killed early Wednesday when a fire swept through an apartment in a city-owned building in Harlem.
New York City Fire Kills 6, Including 4 Children
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Six people, including four children, were killed early Wednesday when a fire swept through an apartment in a city-owned building in Harlem.
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
It is a springtime routine at the picturesque Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from its 2-mile-long promenade: Workers go from flagpole to flagpole, raising the flags of the 50 states.
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — Alex Kalman does things that Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art do not, like sweeping the street in front of his museum.
In an Elevator Shaft, Lifting Up the Ordinary
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — In the 1980s, New York City sent photographers to every building and every lot in every borough. The city had done the same thing in the 1930s as part of a program to make tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
Block by Block, Looking Back as New York City Changes
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
Kenya The New York Times world
25 Jun 2024
When a 7-year-old girl was hit by a car one day in 1988 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it took more than 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. When it did, her uncle, James Robinson Jr., climbed in for the ride to the hospital.
James Robinson, 79, Dies; Filled an Ambulance Gap in Brooklyn
Kenya The New York Times world
10 Aug 2021
NEW YORK — The 15 or 20 minutes before the performance ticked by the same way they do on nights when Rome Neal presides over jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. But this time Neal was directing a reading of a play. It takes aim at the sensation that is the theatrical juggernaut “Hamilton” and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So