West Side Highway News
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We’re blitzing to Boston in a Bentley, a Continental GT Speed. It’s a hulk of a car that looks like it was sculpted from a solid block of steel and weighs almost as much.
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Anyone who's traveled down New York's West Side Highway in the past few weeks has seen Roman Abramovich's mega-yacht, The Eclipse, parked at Pier 92. While it has already been eclipsed by a 590-foot-long yacht as the world's largest, the oligarch's floating McMansion, at 557 feet, is a boat like Versailles is a house.
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New York is not a truck kind of town. Delivery and moving vans, sure, but pickup trucks seem like odd emissaries from another America, a place where cabs are few and Ford F-150s are king.
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Fifteen years after Magdalena Sawon moved her Postmasters Gallery to Manhattan’s Chelsea district from SoHo, the art dealer is heading back downtown because her rent is about to double.
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Lee Bollinger had yet to take over as president of Columbia University in 2002 when he toured a largely industrial area about 10 blocks north of the historic campus on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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Look through the monumental bay windows (there are three) and you can see most of Manhattan from high up on the 76th floor.
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Google Inc., the world’s biggest Internet-search company, plans to offer free wireless Internet access in parts of New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, creating the largest public outdoor network in the city.
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A growing literature trumpets the news that cities around the world are tearing down freeways.
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Of all the scarce and precious resources in Manhattan, outdoor electrical sockets are not the first to spring to mind. Unless you’re driving Mitsubishi’s all- electric i-MiEV. In which case, sooner or later, you’ll be struck by the thought: Where am I going to plug this gizmo in?
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It’s 9:30 on Friday morning and the call comes: My Ferrari is outside. I bound downstairs to find a huge delivery truck outside my Manhattan apartment.
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