Brooklyn Academy of Music, main entrance on Lafayette Ave., January, 2010.
David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, once told an interviewer that his favorite place in the city was Film Forum on West Houston in the Village:
I have only one ambition: that one day I will be buried there. Up close. Near the screen.
I know it’s lame because it’s a copycat thing, but I have a similar ambition. I want my cremated ashes to be buried by a screen at BAM’s Cinematek. Except for the happy moments I’ve shared with my better half, my favorite moments in New York City in the past year have been right there.