Updated 8:13 a.m.
Good morning on this ice-cold Wednesday.
In Manhattan, beneath a graveyard where Mayor Edward I. Koch, John Jacob Astor and more than 100 other New York City notables are buried, there lies a crypt.
And in that crypt — a cavernous space with dark corners, vaulted ceilings and the ashes of past parishioners — you may listen to classical music.
Crypt Sessions, which begins tomorrow underneath the Church of the Intercession, by Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights, was started by the musician Andrew Ousley, who has also produced classical and opera concerts in a metal works factory in Gowanus.
“It’s a space that you just don’t expect to find in New York,” he said of the 2,000-square-foot crypt. “You’re running around outside — you’ve got bars, restaurants, et cetera — and you go, out of nowhere, through this cemetery and into a space that is just completely transformative.”
The recitals, which Mr. Ousley described as “communion-like,” not religious, put a new spin on old masters like Mozart and Beethoven.
Continue reading the main story“The goal is to shift some of the preconceptions that people have around classical music, some of the negative stigma around the concert experience,” he said.
Of course, taking classical music out of the concert hall has been done before in the city. Over the years, string quartets, pianists and other musicians have played classical music in these and other unconventional venues around town:
• On subway platforms
• On a coal barge by the Brooklyn Bridge
• At the Bronx Zoo
• At Madame Tussauds in Times Square
• In the Arms and Armor Court at the Met
• At homeless shelters and soup kitchens
• In the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History
The Thursday evening crypt concert is sold out, but you can join the mailing list for tickets to the next performance, in March, which will go on sale Friday morning.
Here’s what else is happening:
Weather
Chilly, but lovely.
Sunny skies and a high around 35 — a lucky break for early risers who got to see the super blue blood moon this morning just before 6 a.m.
In the News
• Kevin Corbett, a top executive at a global construction and engineering firm, will become the next executive director of the struggling New Jersey Transit. [New York Times]
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• The Republican state senator John A. DeFrancisco is planning to vacate his seat to challenge Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the governor’s race. [New York Times]
• Citing strong support from surveyed residents, Hoboken’s mayor said he will move forward with plans of changing a waterfront industrial site into a park, despite opposition from a ferry company. [New York Times]
• A federal judge in Manhattan ordered the immediate release of the immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir, calling his detention unconstitutional and cruel. [New York Times]
• With over 3,000 people hospitalized, this year’s outbreak of influenza is proving to be the worst in nearly a decade. [New York Times]
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• Columbia University announced that it would not bargain with graduate students who voted to unionize, sending the case to federal court. [New York Times]
• Prosecutors in the case of a New York City police sergeant who fatally shot a mentally ill woman say that the officer ignored his training, which led to the chaos resulting in her death. [New York Times]
• The State Senate revised its policy on sexual harassment, adding a sentence that says false accusations are a serious act. [New York Times]
• New York University, along with other colleges, is offering refuge to students from Puerto Rico whose college careers were interrupted as a result of Hurricane Maria. [New York Times]
• A special election is needed to fill the State Senate seat left vacant by George Latimer, a Democrat, who won the race for Westchester County executive. [New York Times]
• In “About New York,” the columnist Jim Dwyer describes the troubling effects of a law in the title insurance industry. [New York Times]
• New Yorkers will be able to see the blood moon early Wednesday morning, when the moon will turn a copper-like color around 6 a.m. [New York Times]
• Neighbors of a man who was fatally shot by police in the Bronx are eager to view the body cam footage; they are suspicious of the way the victim was subdued. [PIX 11]
• Mayor Bill de Blasio walked the red carpet at the Grammys, but he was not allowed entry because of city ethics codes barring him. [New York Post]
• Today’s Metropolitan Diary: “Lesson in Select Bus Service”
• For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Morning Briefing.
Coming Up Today
• NYC Restaurant Week continues with deals on three-course lunches ($29) and dinners ($42) at hundreds of restaurants across the city, through Feb. 9.
• “Wild Medicine in the Tropics,” an exhibition exploring the healing power of exotic plants, at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. [Prices vary]
• Dr. Tenzin Dakpa leads a workshop on Tibetan astrology and divination, exploring health and auspiciousness, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea. 7 p.m. [$20]
• Residents of the five boroughs can receive a 40 percent discount on tickets to the Off Broadway hit “Blue Man Group,” at Astor Place Theatre in NoHo. Times and prices vary.
• Islanders at Maple Leafs, 7:30 p.m. (MSG+). Nets host 76ers, 7:30 p.m. (YES). Knicks at Celtics, 8 p.m. (NBCSB).
• Alternate-side parking remains in effect until Feb. 12.
• For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide.
And Finally...
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Our local rinks — or a movie about a certain figure skater — may have recently reacquainted you with the grace, beauty and occasional disasters of ice skating.
Ice skating, it turns out, goes way back in the city.
It began with a colonial canal, in the vicinity of what we now know as Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, which became a popular skating rink for Dutch and English settlers.
Nearby ponds were similarly repurposed, long before Central Park became a celebrated skating destination in the late 19th century.
The popularity of the pastime, and the number of rinks, grew as technology advanced. The Zamboni and tractors with ice scrapers were invented, replacing horse-drawn ice-cleaners, in the first half of the 20th century. The beloved Rink at Rockefeller Center opened in 1936.
New York on Ice: Skating in the City, a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, explores these developments and more. Tonight, skating experts look forward, not back, exploring the future of skating in the city.
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