RIDING DOWN THE AVENUE Grab coffee at Café la Habana (corner of 59th and 62nd Streets, 52-999-928-0608), then exPaseo the Paseo de Montejo, lined with Beaux Arts-style mansions, most of them built with henequen money.
It is Art Deco one moment and Bauhaus the next, with Beaux-Arts buildings scattered about, just for fun.
Although its facade is generously decorated with Beaux-Arts garlands and shields, he explained, its understatedness made it easier to convert and to sell.
The Scene Newcomers and longtime residents alike rave about downtown, dotted with beaux-arts and Victorian buildings full of small restaurants, clothing shops, cafes and, yes, tasting rooms.
The developer Samuel B. Haines retained the architect Charles Romeyn, who designed the 12-story Prasada with typical turn-of-the-century ebullience, with Beaux-Arts detailing capped by a two-story-high mansard roof.
SITUATED on a nine-acre site straddling the Bronx River, the reinforced-concrete industrial structure with Beaux-Arts details -- which is about to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places -- was vacant for more than a decade before the developers, Scarsdale Associates, turned it into 88 apartments.
The building, with Beaux-Arts and Georgian Revival features, was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built from 1892 to 1895.
Mr. Wiley's career soared, spurred by a concerto debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra, an eight-year stint as principal cellist with the Cincinnati Symphony, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a nomination, with the Beaux Arts Trio, for a Grammy Award in 1998.
The Asian Youth Orchestra, representing outstanding young musicians across the continent, teams up with the Beaux Arts Trio on Aug. 26, as well as the Chinese-Australian violinist Cho-Liang Lin on Aug. 25, both at the Opera House Concert Hall.
With the great Beaux Arts trio finally gone after 50 years, could this be the trio for the next half century?
