Adam Gopnik in the March 22, 2004 edition of The New Yorker on the 100th anniversary of renaming Longacre square Times square:
Nine years later, in 1913, the Times scurried off to a prim side street and a Gothic Revival bishop’s palace, where it has been lifting its skirts and shyly peeking around the corner at its old home ever since.
I've been down that street, in front of the old Times building (they moved to new digs in 2007) with it's round lights proclaiming Times on the glass, and I can't help but think of Gopnick's description of the grand old lady, lifting up her petticoats and peeking around the corner.
There is also a line from a David Byrne song, called "This must be the place" describing a person as "Having a face with a view."
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Adam Gopnik in the March 22, 2004 edition of The New Yorker on the 100th anniversary of renaming Longacre square Times square:
ReplyDeleteNine years later, in 1913, the Times scurried off to a prim side street and a Gothic Revival bishop’s palace, where it has been lifting its skirts and shyly peeking around the corner at its old home ever since.
I've been down that street, in front of the old Times building (they moved to new digs in 2007) with it's round lights proclaiming Times on the glass, and I can't help but think of Gopnick's description of the grand old lady, lifting up her petticoats and peeking around the corner.
There is also a line from a David Byrne song, called "This must be the place" describing a person as "Having a face with a view."