Leslie Buck, 1922-2010

The Times bids farewell to Leslie Buck, the Holocaust survivor who designed the classic Grencian-style coffee cup that stood as proxy for this city until we all went out of our minds and started shelling out five bucks a pop for coffee-style ice cream floats. Buck was 87. I am trying to think of what commonplace New York City items of today will become the go-to props when future generations want to reference our era, but all I can come up with is the MetroCard, or maybe a Foursquare badge. Sad.