9.14.21 - Down on the farm? This farm is eight stories up.
'Ben Flanner was planting beets in a neat row. It was just another day on the farm.'
'Except that this farm is eight stories above the street, on the roof of a newly completed section of the sprawling Javits Convention Center in Midtown Manhattan. And it has something that Old MacDonald didn’t have: a view of the Empire State Building.'
'The farm is a sign that the Javits Center is leaving its pandemic existence behind. It housed a hospital for Covid-19 patients last year and a vaccination center this year, until July. Now it is once again a place for spotlit displays and carefully miked panelists. The Armory Show, the first major art fair since the pandemic, opened last week. This week, a conference led by the onetime Trump administration adviser Anthony Scaramucci is on the schedule. The tickets cost as much as $9,000.'