Video: High-Speed Look at Trade Center’s Spire Installation

What could be cooler than the dizzy-making nine-minute spire’s-eye-view video of the spire being installed atop 1 World Trade Center last Friday?

The sped-up 69-second version, arguably. Give it a try and see what you think. Bring Dramamine.

And thanks to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for making the original available for tweaking. Here is their original:

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Tucked Into the City’s Budget, Thousands of Body Bags

Buried in New York’s $70 billion annual budget are thousands of unexpected expenses that define the city’s cradle-to-grave benefits. Take body bags.

The city is spending $95,000 this year to buy about 5,500 heavy duty ones, mostly for disasters or for bodies in bad shape, and another 13,000 pouches for corpses delivered to the medical examiner’s office from homes, hospitals and crime scenes for autopsies. (On average, some 50,000 people die in New York each year.)

The heavy-duty orange or black bags cost $21.92 each. The white or black plastic pouches come in three sizes: $6.86 for adult, $3.29 for child and $2.49 for infant. They are also used to transfer bodies to funeral homes after autopsies.

Burying impoverished New Yorkers on Hart Island comes from a separate Correction Department budget. The cost of uniformed guards who supervise inmates, a backhoe operator, transportation and maintenance averages $500,000 annually to bury about 1,000 bodies.

Keeping Peace in a Vertical Village

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times Doug Weinstein

As director of operations and compliance for AKAM Associates, a property management company for luxury co-op and condominium buildings in New York City, Doug Weinstein is responsible for all physical projects in 125 buildings. He fields daily calls from cooperative and condominium boards about everything from code issues to job bids. Mr. Weinstein started in the business nearly 30 years ago, working for his cousin, Martin Raynes, of M. J. Raynes Inc., a large real estate developer in the city in the 1980s.

Q.

What is the difference between co-ops and condos, in simple terms?

A.

In a condominium, the owner of the unit owns the actual real estate. In a co-op, the apartment is not even owned. It's assigned shares, so the person is a shareholder in the co-op corporation. Condos historically have less restrictive policies dealing with subletting and sales.

Q.

What are three things that can immediately boost market value in a building?

A.

One is curb appeal. When you walk into a building, if a potential buyer sees a well-decorated lobby, a clean lobby, not something that looks a little threadbare or worn around the edges, that's one of the big items that buyers look for. The other is to have good financials and to make sure the board is on top of financial details. Third, amenities. That could be anything from a health club facility or a gym in the building to a shared rooftop. Nowadays, buyers are looking for such things as dog grooming rooms, which are becoming very popular, or private wine storage areas, in buildings. There has been a big surge in prewar buildings trying to utilize basement areas or other common areas in the building to match some of the amenities you're seeing in new construction.

Q.

What's the most useless feature for a building?

A.

One of the things that a lot of people will look for is rear courtyard space in a building. And we find that in buildings that do have that, that do go through beautifying it, we find, across the board, that it gets very little use.

Q.

Who picks the doorman's uniform?

A.

Doorman uniforms are usually selected by the board or a subcommittee of the board. The managing agent will provide samples from numerous uniform companies. There are some buildings that want to have a very fancy uniform and then there are other buildings that want to get away from that and go very simple, let's say blazer and turtleneck, more toward the look of the boutique hotel rather than the standard epaulets with braids and scrawling writing on them. We've had instances where we've had existing doormen model the uniform for the board so they can see what it looks like on an individual. It's one of the issues where a considerable amount of time can be spent.
There are some buildings that want to do a certain type of fabric or do a certain weight fabric. We'll recommend that they go to a heavier blend or a different blend because we've seen that in the past where you have uniforms like the ones they're choosing, they only last one season. It's up to them ultimately, but we need to bring all options to them.

Q.

Any advice on achieving harmony within a building?

A.

In buildings where there is disharmony among residents or residents and boards, it basically points to one big area and that's lack of communication. We find that frequent communication bridges a lot of what could have been difficult or tense situations in terms of a viewpoint of us versus them. You're living in a little confined community; it is a breeding ground for rumors and stories that are not true, and a little bit more communication could alleviate that.

Q.

Any real life examples from buildings you've managed? Any nightmare scenarios?

A.

This is a business where you're dealing a lot with people's emotions because you're dealing with where they live. And you're dealing a lot with instances where these emotions can get heated. You also have different personalities living in what can best be described as a vertical town so that you're going to have personality conflicts. Our job is a lot of social work, psychology and patience.
We've had buildings where at annual meetings, we've had to break up fist fights, to seeing furniture thrown in meetings. There was an argument that started between a board member and a resident having to do with parking spots in a building. And they felt that the board member was getting a preferential parking spot because they were on the board. I physically had to step in between the two of them.

Q.

You must get complaints and calls all day long.

A.

It's a job that has a lot of pressure. One of the ways we try to blow off steam is we try to tell funny stories. The most recent story: we were able to nab a resident who we had long suspected of allowing their dog to go to the bathroom in the hallway. We were never able catch them, and then we did some surveillance and we were able to identify the person. At the building, the board and I viewed the evidence with quite a bit of satisfaction.

Q.

Do you own a co-op or a condo?

A.

Not presently. I live in a house. Dealing with the industry on a day-to-day basis, it's my relaxation to get to somewhere where there's a little more space involved.
When I still lived in the city, I did own a co-op on the Upper West Side.

Q.

A lot of our readers who wrote in signed their questions with signatures like “Hopes to Never Own a Co-op Again.” Do you relate to that?

A.

Oh, absolutely. But one of the best possible remedies for that is to help the situation and volunteer. If you're unhappy, there are avenues you can go to become a voice of change in your building.

Q.

Or move to New Jersey and buy a house?

A.

No, I'd rather sit and fight.

This interview has been condensed and edited.

A version of this article appeared in print on 05/12/2013, on page MB2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Keeping Peace in a Vertical Village.

A Bug\'s Life in Central Park

Victor Kerlow

Dear Diary:

As trains rumble underground and cars honk their horns and people rush in every direction, the park quietly grows and thrives and moves in the breeze.

Flowers blossom as far as the eye can see â€" a veritable paradise for a bumblebee. He moves mechanically from flower to flower, collecting sweet nectar under the warm beating sun. The air is heavy and moist and the grass reaches ever taller into the sky.

Ants march through an endless forest and cower as the metallic skin of a dragonfly shimmers in the sun and soars by.

The dragonfly climbs higher and higher into the sky, and the forest no longer seems so endless. It is a blur of green as she darts left and then right. She flies quickly over the water, over boats and fountains, and swiftly disappears from view.

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After an Artist Steps Away From His Bag, a Summons and a Legal Battle

Michael Appleton for The New York Times Enrico Miguel Thomas, an artist, worked on a sketch Sunday near Grand Central Terminal. Mr. Thomas is fighting a disorderly conduct summons he received for leaving his bags unattended at the terminal three months ago.

Enrico Miguel Thomas, 42, an artist who has been drawing subway stations for years, arrived at Grand Central Terminal one night in February, plopped down his bags and began drawing.

“I momentarily stepped away, maybe eight feet,” from his two bags â€" a large, flat artist's portfolio and a backpack full of his Sharpie markers â€" in the terminal's main concourse near the big clock to get a better vantage point, and began sketching.

Mr. Thomas â€" who has become fairly well known for using subway maps as his canvases - turned around a few minutes later to see several Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers and a bomb dog gathering around his backpack. Finding only art supplies in the backpack, the police issued a summons for disorderly conduct to Mr. Thomas, who claims he stepped away from the bag for perhaps five minutes, at most.

The summonsing officer said that Mr. Thomas was away from the bag for at least 10 minutes, and that, upon returning, he told the officer “he had just left the bag,” said Aaron Donovan, an M.T.A. spokesman, adding that officers, while walking over to the bag, were approached by several commuters also pointing out that it was unattended.

Mr. Thomas called this unlikely since there were few, if any, people nearby. He was working on a drawing to be included in a coming exhibition on Grand Central at John Jay College.

Mr. Thomas went to Midtown Community Court on May 1, accompanied by Thomas E. Wojtaszek, a Brooklyn lawyer he hired after striking up a conversation with him â€" where else? - on the subway.

Mr. Wojtaszek asked the judge, Felicia Mennin, to dismiss the summons because leaving an unattended bag did not seem to fall under the New York State penal code's description of disorderly conduct.

He disputed the description by the officer on the summons â€" that Mr. Thomas showed “intent to cause a hazardous condition by leaving a bag unattended, causing a crowd to disperse and cause alarm” â€" saying Mr. Thomas certainly did not intend this, nor did his action cause dispersion or alarm.

And the state's penal code does not make leaving baggage unattended a crime.

“The bag was still within his custody - what artist would leave the tools of his trade behind?” Mr. Wojtaszek said in an interview last week. “But this judge was not susceptible to reason.”

“She said, ‘I think in the light of the facts of the last two weeks,' and I cut her off because it was apparent that she meant the bombing of the Boston Marathon,” he recalled. “I said, ‘This happened back in February,' and she said, ‘But it happened after 9/11.'”

“The judge did not cite any precedent or case law,” Mr. Wojtaszek said.

The judge upheld the summons. She offered him the opportunity to perform a day of community service and the charge would be dismissed within six months if he avoided other legal problems. Mr. Thomas refused the deal.

Michael Appleton for The New York Times Mr. Thomas said he carried all his materials in his bags and would never leave them unattended for very long.

“In my mind, this was punishment supporting a lie - I didn't do anything wrong, so why should I accept a punishment,” said Mr. Thomas, who will be tried for the charge on June 20 and face a penalty of up to $250 or 15 days in jail, his lawyer said.

David Bookstaver, a spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration said that the judge's comment “was only about whether the summons was sufficient to go forward, not about his guilt or innocence, which will be decided by the facts of the case at trial.”

Mr. Thomas, who lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, has produced thousands of renderings of interiors and exteriors of subway and train stations and the cityscape. He charges several hundred dollars for the drawings, which have been featured in numerous exhibitions and garnered him plenty of media attention. Last year, he gave a workshop at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn on his methods of drawing the subway. He is featured in a television commercial for Sharpie markers, which shows him drawing, against a gritty urban backdrop of trains.

He noted wryly that the footage was shot in Chicago because the M.T.A. asked for too high a fee for shooting on its property.

Regarding the disorderly conduct violation, Eugene O'Donnell, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former New York police officer and prosecutor in Brooklyn and Queens, said the disorderly conduct violation covered a broad swath of conditions, which makes it a handy tool for officers to cite people who are not technically breaking other specific laws.

“It's the most abused statute in America,” he said. “Just about anything can fall under it, so it's a sweeping tool that officers can use for just about anything. On any given day you could walk through Grand Central Terminal and start handing out dis-con summonses left and right.”

Regarding the judge's upholding of the summons, Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said that incorporating the Boston Marathon or Sept. 11 attacks into a legal decision was “drawing the wrong lesson” from terrorist attacks.

“It's shocking to think that someone would be vulnerable to criminal prosecution based on a prior horrific event, and not on their alleged actions,” she said.

But for police officers, the decision to issue a disorderly conduct summons in these kinds of cases is based on the consequences that bomb scares can cause, said Michael O'Neil, former commanding officer of the New York Police Department's counterterrorism division, and now president of MSA Security.

“Cops have some latitude in giving the summons,” he said, especially when the leaving of unattended luggage “creates public disorder.”

Mr. Thomas said he began doing art seriously at age 8 to escape abuse by his biological father who once scalded him with boiling water. As a teenager, he ran away from home, lived in a shelter and earned a scholarship to the Pratt Institute.

“Art saved my life,” he said, adding that he will fight the summons because, “I'm all about justice - I'm not going to continue to be hurt over and over again.”

This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: May 13, 2013

An earlier version of this article misstated part of the name of a city agency. It is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, not the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

Upgrades on Schedule for Gowanus Canal Pumping Station Despite Hurricane

As Hurricane Sandy swept across the Gowanus Canal last year, a pumping station that redirects sewage to a pollution-control plant was damaged and went offline for almost 33 hours, according to a report released by the city after the storm. About 13 million gallons of raw sewage flowed into the canal before the city installed a generator that restored power to the station.

The hurricane halted a city project, started in 2009, to upgrade the pumping station to minimize the effect of sewage discharges on the canal. The city later changed its plans to prevent similar releases of sewage to the canal in future storms.

On Monday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that the modified project was still scheduled to be completed this year, as originally planned. City officials had been concerned that the storm might delay the work.

“The upgrades to the Gowanus Canal facility are among the unprecedented investments we've made to protect our world-renowned water quality,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement. He and other city officials held a news conference at the canal on Monday to discuss the plan.

Among the changes is an upgrade to an underground tunnel used to pump clean water from the Buttermilk Channel into the Gowanus Canal, so that more water can flow through the tunnel. The city is also raising the elevation of mechanical equipment used for the pumping station and will build a wall and floodgates to protect buildings and generators from water damage. The changes have increased the price of the project to $190 million from $140 million, officials said.

The federal government is moving forward with its own cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, which is listed as a Superfund site.

Band Members Say Slayer Guitarist Died of Cirrhosis of the Liver

The surviving members of the metal band Slayer said that the guitarist Jeff Hanneman had died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, not from an infection of flesh-eating bacteria.

When Mr. Hanneman died last week at a hospital in Hemet, Calif., there were unconfirmed reports that his death had something to do with a horrific case of flesh-eating bacteria that developed in his right arm in 2011 after he was bitten by a spider. The surgery to stop the infection - necrotizing fasciitis - had nearly cost him his arm, threatening his livelihood.

That seemed to some fans an appropriately ghoulish death at age 49 for a man who wrote songs about torture, Nazi concentration camps, terrorist acts and the horrors of war.

But it was not true. The band posted a notice on its Web site on Thursday that said Mr. Hanneman's liver had given out because of drinking.

“We've just learned that the official cause of Jeff's death was alcohol-related cirrhosis,” the posting said. “While he had his health struggles over the years, including the recent necrotizing fasciitis infection that devastated his well-being, Jeff and those close to him were not aware of the true extent of his liver condition until the last days of his life.”

The remaining band members - the frontman and bassist Tom Araya, the guitarist Kerry King and the drummer Dave Lombardo - also said they planned a public celebration of Mr. Hanneman's life later this month, though they gave no details.

A Strong ‘Gatsby\' and Stronger ‘Iron Man 3\'

Warner Brothers Pictures Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.”

Moviegoers ignored naysaying critics and swarmed to Baz Luhrmann's stylized 3-D adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” over the weekend. But “Iron Man 3” (Walt Disney Studios) repeated as the No. 1 box office draw in North America, taking in $72.5 million, for a two-week total of $284.9 million. “Gatsby,” adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, sold about $51.1 million in tickets in second place - an astounding result for a period drama.

Although “Gatsby” received mixed-to-negative reviews, Mr. DiCaprio remains a “Titanic”-sized draw among women, and Warner Brothers backed “Gatsby” with a highly effective marketing campaign. Still, the film was not cheap: Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow spent more than $150 million to produce it (about $100 million after factoring in tax credits), according to trade media reports. And 3-D sales were soft: Only about 33 percent of ticket buyers opted to see “Gatsby” in that format.

“Pain & Gain” (Paramount) was third, taking in $5 million, for a three-week total of $41.6 million, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles box office data. “Peeples” (Lionsgate), a new African-American comedy that counted Tyler Perry as a producer, was a distant blip on the cultural radar, taking in about $4.8 million, for fourth place, though it cost only about $15 million to make. “42” (Warner) was fifth, selling $4.7 million in tickets, for a five-week total of $84.8 million. Of note overseas: “Star Trek Into Darkness,” working to overcome a terrible foreign track record for the franchise, arrived in seven countries and took in $31.7 million, compared to the opening-weekend total of $19.2 million in those same markets for “Star Trek” in 2009, for an increase of 65 percent.

Talking ‘Mad Men\': The Woman in Room 503

Michael Yarish/AMC Jon Hamm in a scene from Sunday's episode of “Mad Men.”

Every Monday morning, Sloane Crosley and Logan Hill will be offering their post-”Mad Men” analysis here. Read on and share your reactions to Don and Sylvia's last tryst, Joan and Bob's new alliance and more, in the comments:

Sloane Crosley: Happy Mother's Day, Logan! Or, in the tender words of Pete Campbell, “My mother can go to hell!”

Logan Hill: With two ice cubes tinkling in her gin and tonic, while Ted flies her there! What did you make of Pete and his mom?

SC: I apologize if this sounds exactly as macabre as I expect it to sound but this is just the wrong week to have a “men trapping women in rooms and throwing away the key” theme. On a lighter note, I didn't quite get the point of Pete's mother's Alzheimer's until the “they shot that poor Kennedy boy” scene. And on an even lighter note? We're talking about a show where Alzheimer's is the lighter note.

LH: Oof. Exactly. Every time I think I understand how bleak Matt Weiner's comedic sensibility is, I soon realize I've underestimated him. But it's the sort of riskiness I love about his best writing, and even those scenes were so sharp and cutting this week - though everything paled in comparison to the the hotel scenes between Don and Sylvia. We got the return of the Don Draper Treatment (TM), in all its splendor.

SC: I love when Sylvia's all “what's gotten into you?” and I'm all (actually shouting at the TV, mind you), “James Spader!” I thought that thread, unlike Pete's, which was a means to an end, was the show at its finest. The promise is that hotel room is a universe unto itself, an emotional sea-monkey kit. And it is. And the shift in power dynamic at the end is so graceful. Don wanted her to exist only in that room? Wish granted. But then look what happens when she gets so far into it she wants out of it.

LH: This is basic cable television, grappling with sexuality in a sincere way that I've never seen before. It's groundbreaking television in that it never felt like it was pushing Don's desire into more extreme places (after Bobbie Barrett and so many others) just for shock value. I noticed more prudish fans tweeting their disapproval, but when Jon Hamm bleated, “Please,” it revealed so much about his Don: his compulsive need for control, his desperate insecurity. The pivot worked perfectly for me.

SC: But aside from his genuinely desperate “please” at the end, were you mourning the loss of this affair?

LH: No, I'm glad to see Sylvia gone. This is the only episode in which their affair fascinated me. You?

SC: Oh, no, still not fascinated. He could have locked anyone in that room. Truly. But what I do like is that Don is back in terms of range. The most basic barometer fans have for the show is, in some ways, “How much is Don like Roger Sterling?” So when Don is selfish and heartless and articulate about it but then shows just a sliver of heart and kindness, the show gets better. When the ratio is off, it gets worse. Clearly these are two different men but … the ratio was good in this episode. What did you think of all the merger trappings? It was like Noah's ark up in that office.

LH: Matt Weiner and his writers are so damn good at zany shenanigans that it sometimes feels as if they could write the best office sitcom ever, and in episodes like this, I think the show trounces so many other workplace dramas: The rivalry between Don and Ted is gimmicky, but it stings. As fans, we, like Peggy, know that Don once pulled the same trick on Roger. Whereas Ted just looks undeniably studly in those aviator shades.

SC: Well, it's no “Ally McBeal,” Logan. No really, you're right about the gimmicky bit. And it's the twist that stings. In this case, the twist is the older brother-big brother peer pressure dynamic between the two men. Merger-wise, mostly I was thinking, “I'm glad they fired you, Burt. Pretty sure that's a Pierre Jeanneret chaise you just openly mocked.” That and the fact that the merger bits included all your zany shenanigans in an episode that also covered cancer and affairs and ovarian cysts. Speaking of cysts: Should we give Bob credit … credit for what, exactly?

LH: Bob is such a cipher: In the comments folks have been speculating that he's just a younger Don, working his way up, or an investigative journalist working on a tell-all, or a federal investigator looking into Don's past, or a good robot sent from the future to kill Pete (O.K., that last theory is just mine). I'm utterly at a loss.

SC: Let's lock him in a room and send him a dress from Saks! Can we please? Or, in the word of Don, “please.”

LH: He'd be into it. He'd do anything for Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Or whatever the new firm may be called.

SC: He knows where his bread is buttered, that's for sure. Speaking of which …

LH: Oh, look at you. You should apply for a copywriting job, where you could come up with ideas and have both Ted and Don ignore you: Double the fun!

SC: I did like seeing the new creative gents and the old stress out over an account.

LH: I liked seeing Harry lose his office. Again. … But did you think this episode was as groovy as I did? I feel the last two episodes have refocused the series on business, which has always been the straw that stirs the pitcher of Don's bourbon. When the main storyline is business, everything else seems to fall into place.

SC: Actually, I thought it was kind of a recovery episode. Sometimes the pendulum swings with this show. Also, with little Peggy, no Betty, less Megan and little Joan, this was the men's turn to take the stage. Matt Weiner, in that sense, really did lock the women in a room somewhere for an hour while we watched the boys hash it out. And I enjoyed it, but the plot hasn't moved forward much.

LH: Yes, Joan's health-scare is barely there; I was more fascinated by Bob. And Peggy has that nice moment with Don, but it's just a moment. Obviously, there will be a crisis coming soon and all hell will break loose. What form do you think it will take?

SC: What I want is for Peggy to get over her borderline Florence Nightingale relationship with Ted so that she and Stan might live happily and hair-ily ever after. What will actually happen? It will turn out that Bob has been secretly raising Peggy and Pete's bastard child. You?

LH: Bob does seem like he'd make a swell dad. I guess I just want the series to continue to contract: Structurally, I think eliminating Sylvia and a few others may really help the show focus on characters we know best, though I do want to see much more of Ted, and see if he molts his nice-guy skin. Also? I want more “Gilligan's Island” references, because Ted's analogy was amazing. And I want to replay Roger's exchange with Burt because his kiss-off was so pleasurably cruel: “You stole my goodbye.”

SC: Remember, Logan, if you wait patiently by the river, the body of your enemy will float by.

LH: Lovely.

Sloane Crosley is the author of “How Did You Get This Number” and “I Was Told There'd Be Cake“; Logan Hill is a journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, New York, GQ, Rolling Stone, Wired and others.

2 Award-Givers\' Thumbs Turn Up for Durang

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times David Hyde Pierce in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

Two associations of theater writers and reviewers, the Outer Critics Circle and the New York Drama Critics' Circle, have named Christopher Durang's comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” with David Hyde Pierce, as the best play of the 2012-13 season. They did not agree, though, on best musical: The Outer Critics gave that award to “Kinky Boots,” and the New York Drama Critics went with “Matilda the Musical.”

The musical revival of “Pippin” won the most awards from the Outer Critics with seven, including best musical revival, director of a musical (Diane Paulus) and actress in a musical (Patina Miller). That group also named Nathan Lane best actor in a play for his work in “The Nance,” beating out Tom Hanks (“Lucky Guy”).

The New York Drama Critics (who do not name acting awards) announced special citations for the set designer John Lee Beatty (“The Nance”), City Center's Encores! and Soho Rep. No staff members of The New York Times are part of either organization.