Welcome to the Age of Helplessness

We’ve lost control of the world, so we just keep canceling it

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After six years of construction, New York City’s latest mega-real estate venture, Hudson Yards, finally opened in March. Reviewing the site, New York Magazine’s Justin Davidson summarized Hudson Yards as a “para-Manhattan, raised on a platform and tethered to the real thing by one subway line, has no…