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'The Gates' (2008)

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Marc Myers
Dec 30, 2023
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Living in Manhattan my entire adult life, I've experienced many amazing and shocking things, as you might imagine. The most horrible was certainly 9/11 and its aftermath. If there was an event that was the most thrilling, The Gates would have to be it. The brief art installation arrived four years after the abominable terrorist attack and at a time when…

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