Month: May 2018

Way back in 1981, Buckle My Shoe was the first preschool to open in Tribeca. Over the years it’s grown and now has two locations, one on Church Street and one in the West Village.  Founder Linda Ensko, while greeting her charges one morning, told us the story of how and why she started the school and...

The Downtown Alliance has unveiled its vision for transforming the “frozen zone” — a 3,000-feet security perimeter surrounding the New York Stock Exchange, which has enclosed (and limited access to) 19 acres of the Financial District since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This area, bounded by Broadway on the west, Beaver...

Tomorrow and Sunday (May 19 and 20), from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, the opening celebration of the new imagiNATIONS Activity Center at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian — New York (One Bowling Green, near the intersection of Broadway and Battery Place) will offer a weekend of activities showcasing the ingenuity of...

Two Lower Manhattan hotels have been become entangled in an indictment from New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance, alleging that a construction contractor stole more than $1.7 million in wages from laborers hired to help build the structures, along with another $7.8 million in unpaid insurance premiums, which Mr. Vance’s office says the company...

Broadway-caliber theater is coming to Lower Manhattan in July, with a groundbreaking Yiddish-language production of “Fiddler on the Roof,”which will be directed by Oscar- and Tony-winner Joel Grey. Steven Skybell will play Tevye in the upcoming production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” Casting for the eight-week run was completed in the first week of May,...