Scenario

In Hell’s Kitchen, the new Jerome Robbins Theater merges form with function for a LEED Silver performance.

At first glance, the Jerome Robbins Theater at 450 W. 37th Street is deceptively simple: the space is a modest 40x70 feet, with centered rows of bench seating descending toward an unadorned proscenium stage. Steel beams support a compact balcony above and walls of gray cement provide a raw, industrial element, while a lofty ceiling keeps the small theater feeling spacious.

Real estate entrepreneur Barbara Koz Paley finds ways to make art accessible and affordable—especially in a down economy.

When Adolph Zukor made the daring decision in 1919 to relocate his motion picture company from New Jersey to Queens, he set the reels of a trend in motion.  It’s hard to know whether he ever envisioned the moneymaker that New York’s film production industry has become.

Early on, some doubted it would ever succeed—an ambitious plan to remake Lincoln Center, the world’s largest and foremost cultural institution. Constituents squabbled and squirmed, preservationists grumbled, some opined that $1.2 billion was a mighty fancy price tag.