As the journalist Nelson George recalls, "Looking through old flyers is to walk through a ghost town buried under high-rise condos, Starbucks and CVS stores, and remarkably anonymous 21st century architecture.
It's $5 to watch from the stands, but free if you walk left past the gates and stand along the railing beyond the southwest goal, under high-rise dormitories.
It was all totally unlike Bayreuth's new production, where Valhalla is depicted as a high rise under construction.
We walked across the grass to Mr. Dash's "view-swiper," a 120-foot brick path, which gradually narrowed from 8too 6 feet, sweeping under high, hooped rose arbors and taking the sky with it.
So sometime in the coming weeks, officials say, demolition will start at the shantytowns of Union City, one a village of six shacks, a second under a high-rise apartment building and a third near the 14th Street viaduct.
"It's expensive enough cleaning up a spill when you can get to it," Ms. Rothberg said, "So you can imagine what it would cost to clean up a spill under a high-rise building in the middle of Manhattan".
High, rising,rising-falling, falling and neutral.
In Manhattan, there also would be a garage problem: I can't imagine people gathering in those garages under luxury East Side high-rises to lean up against their B.M.W.s while tending a pot full of lard.
The subway escalators that run under the brick high-rise at the corner of East 15th Street in Union Square have long been in a near-constant state of disrepair.
