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The composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died on Friday at the age of 91 years old, at his home in the small town of Roxbury in Connecticut. Reinventing the form with an emphasis on character and the willingness to explore sometimes harrowing themes, renowned for the sophistication of his lyrics and the headlong complexity of his compositions, Sondheim straddled...

By the turn of the twentieth century, the Turtle Bay neighbourhood on the east side of Midtown Manhattan was a 'riverside back yard' for the city of New York. Imposing brownstones and squalid tenement housing butted up against the breweries, gasworks, and slaughterhouses which lined the waterfront. Eventually the waterfront would be reshaped by the United Nations headquarters, with dozens of diplomatic missions...