{"id":2711,"date":"2012-12-31T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2012-12-31T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:26:16","slug":"new-york-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"New York at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehorse500web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehorse500web.jpg\" alt=\"whitehorse500web\" title=\"whitehorse500web\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehorse500web.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whitehorse500web-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What better way to close the year than with a celebration of those beloved establishments, some gone and some still here, that give the city its character? I close the door on 2012 in the Metropolitan section of the Times with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/30\/nyregion\/james-and-karla-murrays-new-york-nights.html?_r=0\">Elegy in Neon<\/a>,&#8221; a short piece on the latest tombstone from James and Karla Murray. (Don&#8217;t miss the accompanying slideshow.) As I write: &#8220;You can trace your personal geography in these pages. Here\u2019s the reformed speakeasy where you first spied that dark-eyed beauty, the old standby where they still know your order, the dim-sum parlor that served your grandparents and is still there for your children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few other favorites from the year gone by:<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/story\/20120720\/still-here\">Still Here: The Once and Future Library<\/a> (Metropolis)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exacteditions.com\/read\/icon\/april-2012-30828\/29\/3?dps=\">A Brief History of the Microwave<\/a> (Icon)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/observatory.designobserver.com\/feature\/a-letter-to-a-critic-departed\/33328\/\">Letter to a Critic Departed<\/a> (Design Observer)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.architectural-review.com\/buildings\/barnes-foundation-by-tod-williams-and-billie-tsien-in-philadelphia-usa\/8633252.article?referrer=RSS&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">The New Barnes<\/a> (Architectural Review)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/observatory.designobserver.com\/feature\/lebbeus-woods--john-johansen-memories-of-architectures-lost-visionaries\/37088\/\">Memories of Architecture&#8217;s Lost Visionaries<\/a> (Design Observer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to close the year than with a celebration of those beloved establishments, some gone and some still here, that give the city its character? I close the door on 2012 in the Metropolitan section of the Times with &#8220;Elegy in Neon,&#8221; a short piece on the latest tombstone from James and Karla &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York at Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}