Tag: Magdalena Ball

  • Art of the Deal

    Art of the Deal

    By Magdalena Ball   i. While I grew up in lower Manhattan’s housing project the pre-dawn cusp of gentrification there was a shadow rising a skyscraper in my head sixty-nine stories growing upward with the realisation that childhood was ending prematurely. When the tower was built on the site of Bonwit Teller’s iconic department store…