Looting the Old Gray Lady

Sure, you try breaking in to the old New York Times building and rifling through the debris, plucking what you will to drag back to your soiled lair. We’re pretty sure you’d get arrested. Not so for “architecturologist” Kevin Browne, whose company Olde Good Things (fabulous name) salvages noteworthy items from recently abandoned structures. So goes Nick Paumgarten‘s story in the New Yorker:

In the front lobby, Browne, a man with a Tommy Chong beard and a loping stride, put on a hard hat and led the way up some stairs to a vast newsroom.