Crain's New York - April 29, 2013 - (Page 25)
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HELLUVA TOWN
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Janette Sadik-Khan looks
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Out and About
Bike Expo New York
Rockaway Taco
comes back
When Rockaway Taco opened in
the summer of 2008, it quietly
became a destination, drawing to
the Queens peninsula crowds who
had rarely ventured out there
before. Then Sandy hit.
“We haven’t stopped since the
storm,” Andrew Field said,
standing inside the tiny taco stand
he co-owns on Beach 96th Street,
one block from the boardwalk—
or what remains of its ragged
pilings.
Half the kitchen equipment
was strewn across the sidewalk.
The electricity was turned on only
last week, and the plumbers are
just now finishing their work.
Mash note
Rama Chorpash’s spud smasher may
be small potatoes economically, but
he hopes it will lead to a
renaissance in New York
manufacturing. The Spiraloop is
one of a handful of new locally
made products that will go on sale
at the MoMA Design Store starting
mid-May.
“I think the reason the potato
masher was chosen is because it
represents a
new way to
look at
design,” said
Mr. Chorpash,
an assistant
professor and
director of
product design
at Parsons the New School for
Design. “It’s truly a localized
production, which is a radical
idea.”
Because the masher is designed
as a single piece of surgical-grade,
recyclable stainless steel that Mr.
Chorpash described as “soft in the
hand and feels like rubber,” the
manufacturer, Lee Springs, did not
have to make the gadget close to
its supply chain in India, Mexico
or China. In fact, proximity to end
users made the company’s
Brooklyn factory an ideal spot to
create the $38 masher.
—jeremy smerd
STUDY FOR A
PORTRAIT OF P.L. by
Francis Bacon has
not been seen in
public since 1972. It
is up for auction at
Sotheby’s and is
expected to fetch
between $30 million
and $40 million.
State of the art
courtesy of christie’s
Even so, Rockaway Taco plans to
reopen Friday, May 3.
Mr. Field said the taco stand
was fortunate. Blocked by two
buildings and on fairly high
ground, it took on only about
three feet of water. Chalkboards
hanging above the takeout
counter are still intact, displaying
last summer’s prices: $3 a taco.
Worse off is the beach itself,
which washed away entirely. Waves
now lap at the base of the pilings,
with nowhere for sunbathers to lay
out their towels. The Parks
Department insists the beach will
be ready by Memorial Day, along
with three concession stands Mr.
Field and a number of other downhome restaurateurs operate. “We
poured everything into those
places, and everything got swept
out to sea,” Mr. Field said.
—matt chaban
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Auction houses prep for sale of masterpieces,
but are buyers ready to pay up?
E
SOLD!
BY MIRIAM KREININ SOUCCAR
ven though a number of rare masterpieces are up for auction starting next week
during New York’s spring sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the art world may be
in for a letdown. ¶ Despite high-quality, prized works like Jackson Pollock’s
The Blue Unconscious and André Derain’s Madame Matisse au Kimono, experts
say the sales won’t garner nearly as much excitement as the auctions last
spring or this past fall. ¶ The November contemporary-art sale at Christie’s
brought in $412.2 million, the highest total ever, and Sotheby’s
contemporary-art auction that same month totaled $375.1 million, the
highest sale of any kind at the company. Last year at the May sale at Sotheby’s, Edvard Munch’s
famous 1895 painting The Scream sold for $119.9 million, becoming the world’s most expensive
work of art ever to sell at auction. ¶ “The Munch was of a certain iconic status and an image that
has proliferated throughout our culture to a degree that was very difficult to match,” said Brooke
Lampley, head of impressionist and modern art at Christie’s. ¶ No one is saying the auctions will
See AUCTIONEERS on Page 26
be a bust. Experts predict strong demand for works at the evening sales
Last November’s
contemporary-art
auction sales, in millions
$412.2
CHRISTIE’S,
a record for
the firm
$375.1
SOTHEBY’S,
also
a record
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