New York Times Square New York's most exciting architecture are in Times Square. Times Square is the world's leading exemplar of these manufactured centers. The hidden spaces that house the social condenser's electric circuitry. Command posts where human operators serve electronic brains. The lifts that transport the electricians who keep the spectacle glowing. As expressions of contemporaneity, this covert architecture far outshines the new skyscrapers in Times Square. It is the real world urban matrix, where human energy still has its uses amid electrified grids. But the evolution of Times Square continues. Recently, rumblings have been heard to the effect that the new Times Square is becoming too much like the old Times Square. While crime has not returned, there's too much loitering. People from the wrong neighborhoods are getting off the subways. These complaints are music to my ears. They mean that Times Square is still contested space and that people actually have a place in this "people" place. The circuits run in more than one direction. The vital signs give cause for hope.
The wealth of the world has a New York address. It piles up in buildings on land that is laced with gold. And perhaps nowhere is the essence of New York more evident than in Greenwich Village�for it is a microcosm of all that New York has become, and in its story is the story of a great city. The village that became famous to America was formed by migrations from Italy, the west of Ireland, and by Americans calling themselves Bohemians�for into the narrow, crooked streets of Greenwich Village legions of artists, philosophers, poets, writers, attempted artists and writers and their followers.
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