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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.