He opened Baby's All Right and three other nightclubs, a restaurant and a record store in a dozen years, offering hope that the city had not lost its cultural verve.
The show, about a teenager suspected of killing a schoolmate, won three Gotham Television Awards last month and was a hot topic in the weeks after it was released.
Some big names (Alfonso CuarĂ³n, Elisabeth Moss) were left off the Emmy nomination list while some underdogs (Jeff Hiller, "Common Side Effects") sneaked on.
The Italian director Damiano Michieletto has engaged, and sometimes enraged, European audiences. Now he's preparing for his debut at a major U.S. opera company.