Tag: Featured

Snow Day!

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...
Park Row after the 1888 Blizzard. That's St. Paul's Chapel in the center

Impacted Wisdom Truth

State Assembly member Deborah Glick is sponsoring a proposed law that will (if enacted) impose a tax on residential development in New York City, to create a new, dedicated funding stream to build public schools. In a related development, two Lower Manhattan Community Boards and the Community Education Council for District 2 (which covers Lower...

Little Girl, Big Ideas

Lower Manhattan has a new tourist magnet, and she’s about four feet tall. In the small hours of Wednesday morning, “Fearless Girl,” a bronze statue of a young female striking a jaunty, audacious pose, was stealthily dropped off in front of “Charging Bull,” the famous Arturo Di Modica sculpture that has been snarling and pawing...
Hundreds of pedestrians and tourists swarmed around Lower Manhattan’s newest icon on Wednesday: a four-foot tall bronze, known as “Fearless Girl,” who faces off with “Charging Bull.”

Minor Masterpieces

During the upcoming April school break, some 150 students from more than 20 New York middle schools will come together for a week of writing, directing, shooting, and editing under the guidance of 14 professional filmmaking instructors from a broad range of backgrounds. By the end of the five-day course, the teams will have produced...
Middle-school students shoot a scene at I.S. 289 during the Film Intensive program offered by Manhattan Youth in February. This free program will be reprised during the upcoming school break, in April.

Things Come to Those Who Wait

A waiting list for affordable apartments in the Seaport neighborhood opened today, but may not remain available for long: the State’s Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) agency says that only the first 500 applications will be considered. The apartments are part of Historic Front Street, an 2005 restoration of 11 landmarked buildings — alongside the...
The Historic Front Street development contains both landmarked and contextual structures, as well as affordable apartments - for which the waiting list is now open.

The Academy Awards of the Atheneum World

Quick: Name a single location Downtown where you can go for a Zen meditation class, tax filing help, story time for toddlers, crayon coloring for adults, and Lego building for all ages? Hint: All of the above are offered free of charge, which rules out psychologist’s office you were probably thinking of. The answer is...