Subway Lawsuit Filed

Residents at a co-op on  Second Avenue and East 69th Street are fed up with the MTA’s plan for a ventilation structure next to their building and have filed a federal lawsuit against the transit authority. The plaintiffs claim that the building design residents saw at a Nov. 30, 2009 Community Board 8 meeting greatly differed from the one described in the 2004 final environmental review.

“It’s a substantial modification than what was shown and analyzed,” said Michael Zanlin, the lawyer for residents at 233 E. 69th St. “They were quite surprised that it had changed over the years without any additional disclosure, without any of the additional technical analysis or community input.” Read more

Thinking Seriously About Furniture

In 1926, Bauhaus artist Marcel Breuer designed what would become one of the world’s most popular chairs. The Breuer Chair, made from a single tube of lightweight steel, became a classic of modernist design. But Gord Peteran, a Canadian artist, believes that few people truly appreciate the chair’s graceful efficiency.

After finding a Breuer frame in a dumpster, Peteran wondered: how could he reinvigorate the chair? How could he “say again” what Breuer had said Read more