News & Updates

Floating Cinema

NOT long ago, we received a news­ letter called The Daily Plant from the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation, which read: COMING TO A SHORELINE NEAR YOU-THE FLOATING CINEMA. Some might think “Airport” a bad choice as an in-flight movie, but Parks feels “Jaws” is the perfect flick to see while picnicking at Coney Island near the Atlantic Ocean …. Spectators … arc advised to bring blan­kets, beach chairs and a flashlight. We do not own a beach chair or a flashlight, but we decided that this was a show not to be missed, so the other evening we took the B…

Slave

WHEN Albert Yeganeh says “Soup is my lifeblood,” he means it. And when he says “I am extremely hard to please,” he means that, too. Working like a demon alche­mist in a tiny storefront kitchen at 259-A West Fifty-fifth Street, Mr. Yeganeh creates anywhere from eight to seventeen soups every weekday. His concoctions are so popular that a wait of half an hour at the lunchtime peak is not uncommon, although there are strict rules for conduct in line. But more on that later. “I am psychologically kind of a health freak,” Mr. Yeganeh said the other day, in a…

Gold Bar

You don’t need to have one too many to feel discombobulated in the Gold Bar. Hidden behind the fa­cade of an old liquor store on East Ninth Street, the Gold Bar is a small, dark room with an unpainted concrete ceiling, walls that are askew, a tilted steel-plate floor, and a gold-leafed bar that comes out of a fifteen-foot-long hole in the floor and slants both out­ward and down toward the street. The bathroom doors are made of raw steel that is developing rust spots. There are no wall decorations. On a Saturday night recently, we went down to the Gold Bar…