West Village Action
I was over in the West Village yesterday evening to meet up with Marc Brown and his girlfriend Nancy Herrmann, who was celebrating a profile of her work written up by STEP inside design magazine.

On the way there, I crossed the West Side Highway for a better view of the new park that looks like it's ready to open any day. We moved to that neighborhood about three years ago and it seemed we only had a few months to enjoy the under-utilized grass strips facing the Hudson before it was closed for massive renovation. They've now built a few extra piers out into the river, and covered them with grass, benches and a playground or two. Fences are still up blocking access to the new stuff, but it can't be long until they come down.

I also walked by those two tall mega-luxury glass towers at Perry and the West Side Highway. From our kitchen window in the old place, I watched those things rise up and slowly eat away my little view of the Hudson River and New Jersey. And you know, since we moved to Brooklyn a year ago, I have no idea what work they've actually done to the place. It's all glass, so you can see into every floor and all the construction equipment piled high. Last I read, Martha Stewart was still trying to sell her floor -- which she bought before the whole Imclone thing happened. Pity.

So the interesting gossip I gleaned at the party was from MC Brown himself, who said the relaunch of Buzznet is near, but it's going to be entirely different than the webmag it was the first time around. Hopefully he'll start leaking more details at his blogblogblog or his moblog.
- posted by Amy @ 5/28/2003 12:00:00 PM