Life Cafeteria. According to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, “Stewart’s closed in the mid-1930s and was subsequently reopened as the equally popular Life Cafeteria. Regulars included a youngTennessee WilliamsandMarlon Brando(though they didn’t meet each other until years later on a beach...
OVER COMPENSATING, PERHAPS…Designed by architectEric Gugler, the proposed granite obelisk for Battery Park would have been windowless, 80 feet square at its base and rising to a height of 800 feet. Thankfully it was never, ahem, “erected.” (NYC Urbanism@nycurbanism) Mumford also addressed ...