THE Dia Foundation, the biggest new kid on the block in Beacon, N.Y., has found some neighborhood friends.
Down the block at Beacon's Closet, the local prep-school girls spend Friday afternoons shopping for Pat Benatar T-shints in hopes of sweeping past the bouncers at CBGB.
Its driver betrayed only a flash of perplexity when I asked him to take me home, all of three blocks down Beacon Hill.
This carriage house — up the street from one of the oldest standing black churches in America — is about three blocks from Beacon Street and the northern boundary of Boston Common.
Ghostery's breakdown by purpose is handy, as it means you can block tracking beacons but still let websites – such as the Guardian – capture analytics or embed widgets, such as to display Twitter feeds.
During the blocking attacks beacon loss can reach 100%.
"In Paris, Montparnasse (1993), Gursky focuses his camera on Jean Dubuisson's landmark Mouchotte Building (1966), Paris's largest purpose-built residential block and a beacon of post-War Modernism," says Pardo.
It was a Wednesday, and she was heading from her apartment in the Apthorp building on the Upper West Side, walking a few blocks to the Beacon Theater to see her friends Tegan and Sara, the twin indie-pop duo, perform.
Charles Wang's proposed 60-story "lighthouse," designed with a megawatt beacon to block out the night sky, in the middle of suburban Nassau County, would be a disaster on many levels -- aesthetically and environmentally, to mention two.
Mr. Gagliardi said he was especially appalled by the piped-in music last June for the televised Tony Awards; the band played nearly 50 blocks south of the Beacon Theater, which helped alleviate the crowding in an already crammed auditorium.
