The social commentator Cleveland Amory once posited a corollary to Gresham’s Law (the economics axiom that debased coinage drives sound money out of circulation, because folks horde the latter while continuing to offer the funny money for payment), but his version was about fashionable addresses. It went something like this: artists come first, setting up...

Community Board 1 (CB1), the body that serves as the official voice of Lower Manhattan in dealing with elected officials and government agencies, is undergoing a major reorganization. Anthony Notaro, who took over as chair last summer, announced at CB1’s February meeting that he planned to eliminate three of the Board’s four geographic committees, which...

We are perhaps about to be reminded that, as E.E. Cummings wrote, “the snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” Whatever accumulation of powder Tuesday brings, everybody knows that New York just doesn’t have blizzards like we used to. Since the federal government began keeping records in 1869, the deepest accumulation of...