New New York Times Building – Newsprint In Glass

“Shuffling to join in all this real-estate ferment, the New York Times has lately moved out of its gloomy castle on West 43rd Street and into airy new headquarters designed by Renzo Piano with Fxfowle. Endowed with daylight, elbow room, a decent cafeteria, and window shades that respond to the sun, it’s almost enough to put a reporter in a good mood. How disappointing for the rest of us, though, that the Times has built itself a stolid lump of a building.”

Who Won, Lost In Broadway Strike

“The producers have achieved changes in work rules that, over time, should curtail some (though not all) of the featherbedding on Broadway. In addition, they should be able to cut down the cost of the load-in, that very expensive period during which shows are physically put into the theater. But to achieve those ‘savings’ they had to give up nearly $40 million in gross box-office receipts.”