In the News: Oculus has $200,000 worth of leaks

WHAT’S ANOTHER $200k?
The Journal reports that the Port Authority will have to spend $200,000 to fix the Oculus’ leaky membranes that officials think ripped when the skylight was opened in 2018.

DISTRICT 2 COUNCIL SAYS KEEP G+T
I could barely follow this story, but I think the gist is this: our school district’s Community Education Council has told the mayor that he has to rethink his plan to eliminate G&T programs in the city. Yes, true. –Wall Street Journal

A SHOUT OUT FOR THE EGG
Egg Collective, the new shop on Hudson and Hubert, gets a shout out from AG as rising stars in the design world you should know.

AND SOME LOVE FOR TT
Harper’s Bazaar has downtown resident Julianne Moore crediting Duane Street facialist Teresa Tarmey for her alabaster complexion: β€œIt’s a bespoke process – she accesses your skin, and offers treatments like radiofrequency, laser, microneedling, lymphatic drainage, and my favourite, traditional facial massage, until she gets the results she wants,” the actress explains.

WHEN BATTERY PARK CITY WAS A WHEAT FIELD
Untapped Cities reprints some fabulous photos from 1982, when the artist Agnes Denes planted a wheat field across the undeveloped landfill that is now Battery Park City. There will also be a retrospective of her work titled “Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates” that will take over two of the galleries in The Shed at Hudson Yards from Oct. 9 to Jan. 19.

 

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  1. Let’s see a show of hands from everyone who is surprised the Oculus leaks. Anyone? No one? I didn’t think so.

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