The Chrysler Building is closed to the public for most of the year. Open House New York, a 5-borough event that is supposed to give the public a chance to peak into these locked spaces did just that: it gave me a peak.

Blue train: a day to pack up my East Village digs and a day to move to Harlem. It’s been like Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumble-Bee,” in a jazzy sort of way.

Writer Lisa Chamberlain discusses how hotel super-chain Marriott International has gone and hired design power-house IDEO to re-architect their TownePlace Suites.