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The 2nd Design Trust Council Annual Event, "Quasi-Public: Paul Goldberger and Danny Meyer in Conversation" was held at the New Museum on Feb 26, 2008.
The view of the Lower East Side from the Museum's Sky Room provided the perfect backdrop for the second Design Trust Council Annual Event, a forum on how New York City is changing in the face of technology and development. Council members were invited for cocktails and a private viewing of the Museum's galleries, followed by a lively conversation between Pulitzer-prize winning author and architecture critic for The New Yorker, Paul Goldberger, and restaurateur, author, and civic activist Danny Meyer about how modern-day patterns of work and recreation will give form to new public and quasi-public spaces. "Quasi-Public" picked up where "Gothamitis," the first Design Trust Council Annual Event, left off by sparking a lively conversation between the featured guests with questions like: