Soon after moving to the Berkeley Place brownstone — the couple's first and only house — the Ortners began promoting their neighborhood with walking tours, block parties and open houses.
Today, to tour the blocks around Kelly Street is to see a world transformed.
The debate over bolstering security around Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan moves from the conference room to the streets this morning, as city and federal agencies tour the blocks around Duane and Reade Streets, seeking to balance safety and accessibility.
No guard hovered over Cy Twombly's scribbles; no tour group blocked Jackson Pollock's splatters.
While the downstairs rooms devoted to postwar Soviet literature are now closed because, Karakina tells me, "it is not literature," the next room on our tour is blocked off by chairs because the ceiling is falling in (the state-funded museum has no money for repairs).
I was planning my career moving forward and preparing for my book tour -- blocking out dates, scheduling talks and travel -- for Enjoy Every Sandwich; Living Each Day as if it Were Your Last, which is being published in November.
My sister, who studies in Yale-NUS, had connected me to one of her Singaporean friends who would give me a tour of Block 71 and 79, industrial buildings that have been turned into startup hubs with co-working spaces and startup offices lined up floor after floor -- I was impressed.
Christina Olague, a former member of the city's Board of Supervisors, took me on a tour of several blocks in the Mission District, where she works at a nonprofit that prepares low-income people for whatever jobs might be available.
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"It's like the New Kids on the Block tour, which drew women in their late 20s revisiting their youth".
