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October 4, 1999 Issue
"Right now, it's a place for people who don't mind a little funkiness, which I don't. It's real grungy still, and that's what appealed to me."
-- Martha Stewart, "Pier Pressure"
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| FEATURES Pier Pressure BY ALEX WILLIAMS Unobstructed river views, fourteen-foot ceilings, block-long offices drenched in sunlight, and elevators that can carry a twenty-ton tractor-trailer: The newly defined Lower West Side has exploded as the most dynamic commercial district in the city. Art galleries, telecom companies, new-media firms, photo studios, and e-commerce companies by the score are passing on traditional midtown quarters and setting up shop in hulking riverside buildings that once served the shipping and manufacturing industries. It's raw, it's dirty, and you need to cab it from the subway to get there, but even Martha Stewart says it's a good thing. The Show Has Legs No one's had a more salutary effect on Broadway dancing in the nineties than ex-hoofer Susan Stroman. With Contact, her stunner of a show at Lincoln Center Theatre, the director-choreographer finds a dazzling muse in dancer Deborah Yates (especially opposite flustered foil Boyd Gaines). Trade War After a century of preeminence in the business of making a market for securities, the New York Stock Exchange has seen its franchise under attack by computerized networks offering cheaper, faster, and (some say) fairer trades. NYSE chairman Richard Grasso has a plan to stay competitive in the electronic future -- but for many brokers, it may mean the end of a way of life.
| GOTHAM Gay men find solidarity with the women of Sex and the City; who'd want Janet Maslin's job? GOTHAM STYLE A Fashion Week roundup; plus, what they were wearing in the front row DEPARTMENTS If you build it, they will kvetch: When it comes to architecture and P.R., NYU could take a lesson from Columbia Media Writer Joe McGinniss got his own interests confused with those of publisher Little, Brown MARKETPLACE Tiny teapots; a champagne tub that parties like it's 1999 Smart City Watch on the rind: Cheese is good Sales & Bargains Are these pony-skin bags for real?
| THE CRITICS Movies BY PETER RAINER Mumford is a creepily mild look at therapy and the 'burbs Books Thanks to Susan Faludi, men, too, can now enjoy the privileges of gender-based victimization Art Two broad surveys of American art, both hamstrung by social themes, never get the big picture Classical Music Il Viaggio a Reims has been stitched back together; would Rossini be pleased with the results? CUE Intelligencer Classifieds |