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Greenwich's history of elaborate gardens takes the spotlight in new exhibit


Greenwich s history of elaborate gardens takes the spotlight in new exhibit
Rosemarie T. Anner
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Maggie Dimock places a finger on a sheet of paper torn from a pocket-size notebook. Her very precise cursive script on the paper, appropriately small for the page, identifies the pamphlet beneath it as describing The Orchards, later known as Seabury House off Round Hill Road in Greenwich. Dimock touches the notepaper with such reverence as if she were caressing a rare jewel.
Curator of exhibitions and collections at the Greenwich Historical Society, Dimock mounted an impressive exposition on the exuberant gardens of Greenwich that flourished when mansion-building transformed the town into a Gold Coast suburb. “Beautiful Work: The Art of Greenwich Gardens and Landscapes” runs through Sept. 5. She spent weeks gathering material that will “celebrate the ambition, industry and delight” of gardens that characterized the great estates of Greenwich,� ....

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A Brilliant Chance to Polish a Transit Hub Jewel


It’s a problem that Waterfront Station is privately owned. Why it should belong to us.
Michael Alexander is the retired founding director of SFU City Conversations, and a member of the Downtown Waterfront Working Group.
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Vancouver’s historic Waterfront Station, built in 1914, serves as a lovely public entry and meeting hall. Will it be stuck with the Ice Pick’?
Photo by Michael Alexander.
This month, New York City got an expensive lesson about why public transportation facilities should be publicly owned. It’s a wake-up for we who live in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
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Moynihan Train Hall: It's Stunning. And, a First Step.


Moynihan Train Hall: It’s Stunning. And, a First Step.
A $1.6 billion transformation of a post office has given the city a lofty, light-filled steel, glass and marble cathedral, our critic writes.
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A multiple exposure consisting of 10 frames shows visitors and passengers moving through the new Moynihan Train Hall.Credit.Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
The $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall opened at dawn on New Year’s morning — on budget, too, even a couple of months early. Instagram swooned. Tweeters channeled Stefon from “Saturday Night Live.”
In the midst of everything else, we needed this. New York needs this. ....

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