Author: Matthew Fenton

Timely Themes Invoked in Timeless Language at Museum of Jewish Heritage In 2019, filmmaker and composer Josh Waletzky was invited by the Yiddish Summer Weimar festival to write a new song cycle “based on the flourishing of Yiddish culture that was taking place in Berlin, in particular, between the two World Wars.” But Mr. Waletzky...

Downtown Public Service Group Slams DNA Collection from New Yorkers Convicted of No Crime On the third anniversary of promises by City officials to disclose demographic information about New Yorkers whose genetic material was gathered without their knowledge or consent, a non-profit organization based in Lower Manhattan is denouncing what it calls continued stonewalling on...

Local Leaders Seek to Remedy Monumental Mistake Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging the City to erect a monument in Lower Manhattan to a civil rights pioneer who desegregated New York transit in the decade before the Civil War. While the saga of Rosa Parks and the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott has become a canonical...

Goldman Pushes Adams to Release Documents from 2001 about City Hall’s Awareness of Ground Zero Health Risks Congressman Dan Goldman is taking up a cause championed by Jerry Nadler (Mr. Goldman’s predecessor as Lower Manhattan’s representative in Washington), demanding that the administration of Mayor Eric Adams make public previously unreleased City documents that may shed...

Public Discussion Shaped Park Resiliency Plans for South Esplanade and South Cove The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) hosted a public meeting about its North/West Battery Park City Resiliency Project on Monday, March 6 at Stuyvesant High School (345 Chambers Street). The session gave attendees an overview of evolving plans for the creation of a...

Climbers to Clamber Amid Clamor Registration is now open for the ninth annual Tunnel to Towers Tower Climb NYC at One World Trade Center, in which a maximum of 1,000 participants will hike up 104 stories (that’s 2,226 steps) to arrive at the highest vantage point in New York City—One World Observatory, the three-level viewing...