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James Barron

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Uganda New York Times world
31 Oct 2019
NEW YORK — There is the $72 million apartment, so large it runs the full length of one side of the Plaza Hotel, with windows overlooking Central Park. A second Manhattan apartment is high up in one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, along the so-called Billionaires’ Row.
Selling the Warhol: Their Bitter Divorce Leaves an Art Trove
Uganda New York Times world
3 Oct 2019
When a 7-year-old girl was hit by a car one day in 1988 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it took more than 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. When it did, her uncle, James Robinson Jr., climbed in for the ride to the hospital.
James Robinson, 79, Dies; Filled an Ambulance Gap in Brooklyn
Uganda New York Times world
2 Aug 2019
NEW YORK — Aakash Anand, who was on his way to Kennedy International Airport, looked out the window at the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. “I’m not sitting in that bumper-to-bumper traffic,” he said happily.
Hailing a Helicopter to Beat the Traffic
Uganda New York Times world
3 Jun 2019
NEW YORK — In the 1920s, when Gilded Age plutocrats reigned in Manhattan, an heiress agreed to an unheard-of deal. She traded her Fifth Avenue mansion for an apartment atop a new building.
Home Shopping in the Stratosphere
Uganda New York Times world
30 Apr 2019
It is a springtime routine at the picturesque Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from its 2-mile-long promenade: Workers go from flagpole to flagpole, raising the flags of the 50 states.
Governor says only 49 state flags may fly in New Jersey Park, one must go
Uganda New York Times world
22 Apr 2019
NEW YORK — Alex Kalman does things that Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art do not, like sweeping the street in front of his museum.
In an Elevator Shaft, Lifting Up the Ordinary
Uganda New York Times world
20 Apr 2019
NEW YORK — In the 1980s, New York City sent photographers to every building and every lot in every borough. The city had done the same thing in the 1930s as part of a program to make tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
Block by Block, Looking Back as New York City Changes
Uganda New York Times world
15 Apr 2019
(Grace Notes): NEW YORK — For the 9:20 p.m. movie, Jesse Locascio threaded film through the projector. This was after he had sprayed compressed air on the sprockets and rollers, blowing out dust that could show up as black dots on the screen.
How a Movie Projectionist Keeps the Dying Art of Celluloid Alive
Uganda New York Times world
1 Apr 2019
(Grace Notes): In this year of 50th anniversaries — astronauts walking on the moon, “Sesame Street” premiering on television and the New York Mets winning their first World Series, to name only three — Steve Gold has what he says is the biggest souvenir from one of the biggest happenings of all: the stage from Woodstock.
A Summer of '69 Romance and the Stage From Woodstock