September 25, 2006
Municipal Art Society may move
According to this article tucked away in the city section of yesterday's paper, the Muncipal Art Society, the primary tenant of the "Urban Center" at Madison and 51st, may soon move. (The site is home to Urban Center Books, one of my favorite architecture-and-design bookstores, and an exhibition gallery.) I suspect that the space, if vacated, will likely only be affordable for private owners/developers, which is a shame. I rather enjoy walking through the small plaza created by the ring of six brownstones, which is animated by diners at a restaurant and which is just-enough removed from the bustle of Madison Ave. to seem tranquil, especially in the evenings, when it is lit up by hundreds of tiny lights. Ah, well.