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In the News: The crumbling floor of the Oculus
MARBLE IS NOT FOREVER
New York magazine has a story on the crumbling floor of the Oculus so I went and took a look. And sure enough tons of the tiles are cracked along the edges.
CHINATOWN WILL GET SPECIAL RAT ATTENTION…
…but not us. Guess we can be thankful? This morning I came up the A train stairs at 5:30a at Chambers and Church and three hefty rats ran alongside me. Nuts.
THE LATEST FROM FOOTWEAR NEWS
I love an insider industry blog. Naomi Watts was featured in Footwear News for her Dries Van Noten dress and strappy leather sandals that she wore to the New York Academy of Art Tribeca Ball last week. And Brooke Shields got a shout out from WWD for her polka dots at the same event.
TRANSGENDER ‘SCENE STEALER’ AT SOHO REP
The Times has a feature on the Bangladeshi transgender activist Tashnuva Anan Shishir, who became her country’s first transgender news anchor in 2021 and is performing in “Public Obscenities” at Soho Rep.
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I had a conversation with the guys who were replacing the chunk of floor in the north-east corner one day and it was really interesting to see what they were doing and all the layers underneath. One of the workers told me they were going to replace the whole floor but that was in the spring or summer and there it still is. The skateboarders come through there like crazy and that’s gotta be contributing to the destruction, as well as to the possibility of someone getting hurt.
It’s not all Port Authority; Westfield’s new stores keep getting tackier, and the kiosks in the center are cringe-worthy, as is the Christmas village. When the I [heart] NY store opened toward the end of lockdown I figured they were in real trouble. Compared to Brookfield it’s just a nightmare.
In the mid-aughts they stopped construction for awhile and did some value-engineering until they figured out what could be done cheaper. IDK for a fact but that may be why the joints on some of the columns (especially in the West Concourse) don’t meet exactly, which looks terrible. The floor in the Oculus was quite nice for awhile and then started deteriorating, and then started turning gray instead of white. Those awful brown stains were in other areas (the shopping aisles and the concourse) from the beginning, and took a l-o-o-n-g time to be replaced.