Still Life in a Spinning City: New York Keeps Moving While Some UWS Rebels Won’t Budge

Still Life in a Spinning City: New York Keeps Moving While Some UWS Rebels Won’t Budge

The ghost of Hotel Lincoln Square. Photographs by Yvonne Vávra. By Yvonne Vávra It never stops. Not at one, or two, or three, and certainly not at twelve, when they just start rockin’ around the clock all over again. Last weekend, 71 years ago, the world changed in a room on West 70th Street. On April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded “Rock Around the Clock” — the anthem of relentless motion — at Decca Records’ studio inside the Pythian…