This is the New York that could have been as seen in “Never Built New York,” now at the Queens Museum. Never Built New York Queens Museum,Through Feb. 18, 2018An eye-widening exhibition of an alt-New York, the show presents over 125 projects that failed to launch. A sumptuous watercolor-and-ink blue-sky rendering of McKim Mead & White’s Brooklyn Museum reveals a colossus four times larger than the one built. Samuel Friede’s Coney Island Globe Tower (1906) Photo: Queens MuseumIn a chockablock catalog containing lively essays and even more no-go projects, the curators of “Never Built New York” conclude that in the creative capital of New York “the best, the grandest, the most outlandish, the truly radical” usually don’t get built. But I think that while “Never Built New York” makes for a marvelous romp, most visitors wouldn’t want to live there.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 03, 2017 20:26 UTC