Huffington Magazine Issue 39 | Page 75

CULTURE TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Exit HUFFINGTON 03.10.13 All the W Shades of New York Black BY MALLIKA RAO HAT KIND of young person collects antiques? The question confronted The Huffington Post when a press release came our way for something called Young Collectors Night. Preliminary research told us that on a scheduled night every year, an army of young people stream into the Park Avenue Armory, a vast, castle-shaped building in Manhattan where the snooty Gilded Age Antique helmets on display at Young Collectors Night in January 2013. One 400-yearold German helmet was priced at $90,000.