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...Boulevard in Union City, New Jersey....
...Most new London housing took the form of towers set in landscaping, neglecting the traditional street frontage of mansions....
...The erstwhile newcomer is now New Establishment, with an MBE, a boutique on London’s South Audley Street and stockists including MatchesFashion and Bergdorf Goodman....
...But Clinton built the Erie Canal in eight years, and after opening the new waterway he led a flotilla of boats along it to Albany, the state capital, then down the Hudson river to New York City....
...If the BTP is the Gotham City Police Department, and Turner is Commissioner Gordon, Colin Saysell is Batman....
...In Blade Runner, Spinner cars landed in city streets beside their passengers but that is science fiction. In reality, time spent in the air would be only one part of the journey....
...This little-known outpost, frequented by Edwardian high society, is now the focus of a new exhibition opening at the V&A museum on November 20....
...The new shop offers a mix of Parisian high style and “street”....
...Pioneer printers and thinkers thronged filthy streets, loud with music. The city became a prime mart not just for things but bills, stocks, news....
...British Mosques, an exhibition at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in collaboration with the V&A....
...Following the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol last summer, Cardiff City Hall said it would remove a statue of Thomas Picton, the governor of Trinidad who authorised the torture of a 13-year-old...
...But even Queen Victoria had challenges in all those departments....
...The spread of new Covid strains has made it even more urgent to launch rapid vaccination programmes in poorer countries. Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...Shares in Hong Kong fell a day after widespread demonstrations returned to the streets, as investors scrambled to figure out the implications of China’s move to impose a national security law on the city...
...Only 23 per cent of rape or sexual assault victims report the crime to the police, according to a US Department of Justice study....
...That same year, the V&A announced the arrival of a significant cultural artefact into its newest department, the Rapid Response Collecting Gallery. The item?...
...(FT) No longer trendy America’s department stores were once world famous....
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...When 1m people took to the streets of Hong Kong in early June to protest against a law that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China to stand trial, Roy Lim marched with them....
...Opalescent spheres turn out to be former Parisian street lights. A set of neoclassical interior glass doors were once part of the Whiteleys department store in Bayswater....
...But when the 1980s brought new wealth to New York City and the art world began to cultivate Wall Street as a new collector base, Bryant’s appetite for evolving the “it not” soured....
...“I go down Bond Street or even to Selfridges and every Chinese new year I see really generic signage, stereotypical red letters, traditional paper cutting or even simplified Chinese visuals....
...(The Street) News Round-up Nokia prepares offer to buy Juniper (CNBC) Siemens’ unit to be Germany’s largest IPO since 1996 (FT) Nomura reopens private equity business (FT) Mars invests in Kind as part...
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