What you need to know for Wednesday.
5 Times Tiffany Was Robbed |
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When Tiffany & Company was founded in 1837, it was a “stationery and fancy goods store” in Manhattan, across the street from City Hall, according to The Times. A few years later, “it was looted by thieves.” |
Now its flagship store operates in Midtown Manhattan and sells things like $4,000 rings that spell the word “love” in small diamonds and $165,000 gemstone necklaces. (One $2.475 million engagement ring weighs as much as a bullet.) And for decades, it was inside a 10-story fortress on Fifth Avenue. |
Last weekend, Tiffany had to empty that store for a long-planned renovation. |
But first, it had to relocate its valuable merchandise to a temporary location a few steps away. Cue the security. |
The company assigned 30 security officers to oversee the transfer. New York City police officers stood outside. A tent was erected outside the temporary store’s entrance. |
The company kept a lookout for any unusual mentions online, and employees were told not to post messages about or photographs of the move on social media, my colleague James Barron reported. |
The move took a few hours, and, as Mr. Barron wrote, “Nothing was snatched.” |
All that security was a reminder that Tiffany has been the victim of a number of headline-making thefts. Some were swift, some were armed and all were brazen. |
Two armed robbers tied up a couple of guards, bypassed the alarm system and escaped with more than $1 million in jewelry, and the videotapes that recorded the crime. The stolen loot included about 300 necklaces, bracelets, watches, rings and earrings encrusted with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other gems. |
The thieves “appeared to know much — perhaps improbably much — about Tiffany’s security,” The Times reported. |
A man and two women fled the store with $300,000 in rings, earrings and bracelets after “taking advantage of a momentarily distracted sales clerk,” The Times reported. |
A man in a blue pinstriped suit placed a blue overcoat on a counter. A few minutes later, when he went to pick it up, “he leaned a little further than was necessary,” The Times reported. He then grabbed a choker with rubies and diamonds from inside the counter and ran out of the store. It was worth $45,000. |
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Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times’s culture pages. |
And finally: Produce-turned-art-turned-salad |
The Times’s Melissa Guerrero writes: |
At most museums, people aren’t allowed to touch or move the art. Eating it is definitely off limits. |
But a new edible exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art pushes those boundaries, and adds frequent grocery trips to the museum’s agenda. |
The “fruits, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad” exhibition by Darren Bader, which opens today and is on view until Feb. 17, is exactly what it seems: Fruits and vegetables are displayed on pedestals. Then, after some preparation, the almost over-ripened produce is made into a salad served to guests. |
Visitors can view the salad assemblage in the museum’s kitchen via a screen in the gallery. |
The production repeats at set times on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. |
When compared with his previous artwork, the salad is reasonably low key. In the past, he has released goats inside a gallery and injected a piece of lasagna with heroin. |
“It’s one of those things that kind of captures the imagination,” Christie Mitchell, a senior curatorial assistant at the Whitney, said about the exhibition, which she organized. |
“Produce is beautiful in its own right, and I don’t think we appreciate it often enough. So this almost forces you to do that by really presenting it and treating it like a sculpture.” |
It’s Wednesday — eat your vegetables. |
Metropolitan Diary: Train traffic ahead |
It was Friday evening, and my Brooklyn-bound Q train was crawling across the Manhattan Bridge. |
I had my head down in a book, making every effort to get through the slog of another slow and crowded commute, while trying to distance myself mentally from the stressful workweek that had just ended. |
As the train inched along, an orange light coming through the train’s south-facing windows caught my attention. I peeked up from my book and was met with the usual landmarks: the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lower Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. |
These world-class sights were drenched in the glow of a roaring orange sunset. In moments, everyone on the train was either staring, pointing or scrambling for their phones in hopes of snagging a picture before the train dipped off the bridge and back underground. |
The train came to a halt. |
“Ladies and gentlemen,” the train operator said. “We are delayed because of train traffic ahead.” |
It was my first time riding the subway that I ever noticed people being grateful for a train delay. We all had just a few more moments to enjoy the view. |
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