Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Goings On About Town
Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. (212-534-1672)—“Cecil Beaton: The New York Years.” Through Feb. 20. | “Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment.” Through Feb. 5. | “The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011.” Through April 15. | “Police Work.” Between 1972 and 1979, the photographer Leonard Freed rode in squad cars, hung out in precinct stations, and went to demonstrations, drug busts, and crime scenes in order to document the N.Y.P.D. at work. He also spent time with off-duty officers and their families and colleagues. “I worked alongside and with the police,” Freed said. “I ‘stole’ no pictures.” The result is a classic of you-are-there photojournalism—tough, unflinching, and surprisingly evenhanded. Freed captures the routine brutality of police work—the corpse laid out in a tenement hallway, the suspect cornered at gunpoint in a dark vestibule, the prostitute handcuffed to a precinct chair, waiting to pay her fine and go back to the street. He catches four cops manhandling a student demonstrator but also others who let children play in their car. After decades of good-cop, bad-cop TV shows, none of this is news, but it’s still strong, shrewd stuff. Through March 18. (Open daily, 10 to 6.)
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