Tag: Village
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David Saint, a Theater Veteran, Selling His East Village Duplex
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As soon as he stepped inside the East Village duplex 12 years ago, the theater director David Saint knew that it would be his next home. “I saw about 20 apartments while I was looking to buy, and this was the last one,” he said. “The minute I walked in, I knew.” What sold Mr.…
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A Japanese Village Wants Tourists to Come for Heat, Soot and Steel
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This past October, I found myself in Yoshida Village standing before a tatara, a giant open-top furnace that was filled with charcoal and raging with such controlled ferocity that it could have been a set piece in Lucifer’s bedroom. Deep within the belly of those orange flames sat a growing and mangled ingot that contained…
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The Village Voice gets the rollicking, rebellious oral history it deserves
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On the shelf The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture By Tricia RomanoPublicAffairs: 571 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores While she was the Village…
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How to freshen up your living room this spring with Furniture Village
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We all want a place where we can unwind and spend time together, and for many people, that’s the living room. That means the space has to be many things: inviting and comfy, so you’ll want to linger, yet pleasingly stylish, so you can sit and enjoy your surroundings. However, achieving this delicate balance isn’t…
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How the Village Voice Changed Music Journalism
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Almost immediately after its founding in 1955, the Village Voice became the most raucous, irreverent and important alternative newspaper in America. At one point the Voice was the most read weekly in the country, serving as Andy Warhol put it “the entire liberal thinking world.” In her excellent new book The Freaks Came Out to…
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How the Village Voice Met Its Moment
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Naturally, a moment matters. In this case, a moment that was also, and might be considered still, a place: fixed, discernable, real. A community already dreaming of itself as a site of ferment and change, already wishing to stay the same. The idea was to capture and reflect something of this moment, this place, but…
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The New School Lists Its Greenwich Village Townhouse for $20 Million
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The New School’s Greenwich Village townhouse, an elegant 19th-century brick building that has served as a residence for university presidents and a venue for school functions for the last four decades, is now on the market. The asking price is $20 million, according to the listing brokers, Nikki Field and Mara Flash Blum of Sotheby’s…
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This small New York village made guns for 200 years. What happens when Remington leaves?
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ILION, N.Y. — Remington began here two centuries ago and generations of workers have turned out rifles and shotguns at the massive firearms factory in the middle of this blue-collar village in the heart of New York’s Mohawk Valley. Now residents of Ilion are bracing for Remington’s exit, ending an era that began when Eliphalet…
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ALA draws on West Village history for Talea taproom interiors
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New York studio Alda Ly Architecture has designed a taproom for female- and veteran-owned brewery Talea in the city’s West Village neighbourhood, which includes a place for groups to “scheme”. Talea West Village is the beer company’s third outpost and its first Manhattan location, following two established in Brooklyn. The main dining and drinking area…
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Japan’s oldest village woos younger residents to survive : NPR
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Nanmoku, Japan, is about 70 miles northwest of the capital city, Tokyo. The village has the most aged population in Japan, with two-thirds of residents over age 65. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption toggle caption Anthony Kuhn/NPR Nanmoku, Japan, is about 70 miles northwest of the capital city, Tokyo. The village has the most aged population…
