The artist intended it to be a display of his love for the city: white plastic bags stamped with the “I ♥ NY” logo lighted from within and glowing moonlike from lampposts and trees in Brooklyn and beyond. Almost immediately, the installation attracted attention, though probably not the kind the artist, Takeshi Miyakawa, expected. Louis Lim The artist Takeshi Miyakawa, 50, was arrested early Saturday while hanging illuminated plastic bags with the “I ♥ NY” slogan in Brooklyn. Takeshi Miyakawa's installation project prompted a call to the police bomb squad. The police bomb squad was called and Mr. Miyakawa, 50, was arrested early Saturday. On Sunday, a judge ordered him to be held pending a psychological evaluation, his lawyer said. Mr. Miyakawa’s plan was to ... Continue reading →
Photos: Daniel Maurer The Sixth Street Community Center got approximately 15,000 new tenants yesterday: about three and a half pounds of bees that may make honey for its café, opening next month. The hives on the community center’s rooftop are among many in the East Village, according to the beekeeper who brought the swarm down from Central Park. On Wednesday (the same day he dealt with a mass of bees on the Bowery), Andrew Cote helped capture another swarm attached to a lamppost near Harlem Meer Lake, near 110th Street. He offered them up on the New York City Beekeepers Association’s Facebook page. Ray Sage, a member of the Sixth Street Community Center CSA who has tended to four hives on the former synagogue’s roof ... Continue reading →
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Noah Spencer, who used wood from an old distillery set up by Italian immigrants in Queens to make a bar console, at his workroom in Brooklyn. The two men paused from cutting planks of wood that had come from one of Thomas Edison’s factories to admire a coffee table that had been set aside. “Really dense,” Scott Peltzer said. “It would last forever.” “Pest-resistant,” Al Solomon said. “A Brazilian hardwood, ipe. Ten times stronger than oak.” Those lengths of ipe had more than natural strength going for them. Before becoming a coffee table, they had been part of the boardwalk at Coney Island, and so were pickled by sunlight and leaking custard cones and seawater dribbling from swim suits. ... Continue reading →
Chris Navas needed a course that met at the right time in the evening and would not interfere with his day job, which was building boilers, or his daily obsession, which was building his body. That was a little over three years ago. He was making good money at a factory in Maspeth, Queens, forming new boilers from sheet steel as if it were clay, rolling it, shaping it, cutting it. He visited the gym fervently. His class work at Queens College was fitted into patches of time around boilers and barbells. “They had a night class, a 200-level psychology class,” Mr. Navas said. “Behavioral neuroscience. It worked for my schedule.” The teacher, Giuseppe Cataldo, then a graduate student working on his doctorate, “was a ... Continue reading →
From his holding cell, Karl Vanderwoude could see and hear the detectives who were looking out the window onto 119th Street, counting the news photographers and videographers as they assembled. “They said, ‘Oh, there were only one or two of them, now there’s three or four,’ ” Mr. Vanderwoude said. They were waiting to take his picture. By the time he was led out of the building on the afternoon of April 13, a news mob had gathered, alerted by the Police Department that an arrest had been made of a well-dressed man who had molested four women in Manhattan. The case had been widely covered earlier that week. Even the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, had been filmed holding a surveillance photo of the ... Continue reading →
From his holding cell, Karl Vanderwoude could see and hear the detectives who were looking out the window onto 119th Street, counting the news photographers and videographers as they assembled. “They said, ‘Oh, there were only one or two of them, now there’s three or four,’ ” Mr. Vanderwoude said. They were waiting to take his picture. By the time he was led out of the building on the afternoon of April 13, a news mob had gathered, alerted by the Police Department that an arrest had been made of a well-dressed man who had molested four women in Manhattan. The case had been widely covered earlier that week. Even the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, had been filmed holding a surveillance photo of the ... Continue reading →
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