“The Flatiron Building yearns to be drawn as a ship,” Birgit Schössow, the artist behind this week’s cover, says. “And in this weather, of course, as an icebreaker.” Shivering New Yorkers nod in agreement. The so-called “Siberian Express” has supplanted last year’s polar vortex, and at our new offices, at 1 World Trade Center, we watch the snow and the ice floating on the East and Hudson Rivers—a view captured by our Condé Nast Traveler colleagues, who sit a few floors below, in this time-lapse video:
Cover Story: “Flatiron Icebreaker”
