Being a writer is tough and being a parent and a writer is twice as tough. Tenacity, as well as perfecting the balancing act that comes into play while raising kids and finding the time and place to write, is a challenge many writers face. Milda M. DeVoe, a mother of two children, started Lower...
Pen Parentis Founder M. M. De Voe presents the 2016-2017 Writing Fellowship for New Parents to Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan of Pittsburgh, PA (far right). Certificate and $1000 check presented by 2015-2016 Fellow Orli Van Mourik of Brooklyn who announced at the Salon she had just landed a literary agent!
Pier 40, a recreational facility that youth athletic leagues serving Lower Manhattan depend upon is slowing falling into the Hudson River, but nobody knows exactly how much it will cost to repair. And that unanswered question makes it impossible to know whether a proposed air-rights deal that will allow real estate developers to build a...
Pier 40, which serves as a vital recreational facility for local youth sports leagues, is in danger of falling into the Hudson River - but could be bailed out by a plan to redevelop the St. John's Terminal building (visible behind the pier).
Horace Greeley has greeted hundreds of millions of New Yorkers and out-of-towners alike over the past hundred years with a nod of his head as they scoot past his curious perch in City Hall Park. You can find him along the path between City Hall and the Tweed Courthouse sitting in the grass and taking...
On June 19, 1916, Horace Greeley finally heeded his own advice and went west. Ousted from his niche in the Tribune Building by a city ordinance, public outcry kept the Tribune's founder from moving to Central Park and appropriately kept him in sight of Printing House Square. In this photo, Greeley appears to be supervising his own move to City Hall Park.
A heptad of undergrad vocal ensembles will harmonize beside the Hudson tomorrow (Saturday, October 1), in Wagner Park, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. The free Dockapella music festival will feature voices that fly without instruments from Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Brown Universities and Vassar College, as well as ensembles from New York University and the...
New York University's a cappella singing group, the N'Harmonics, is one of seven world-class vocal ensembles that will perform in Wagner Park on Saturday.
A neglected local landmark is about to change hands: the former J.P. Morgan & Company headquarters at 23 Wall Street (on the corner with Broad Street) is in contract to be acquired by Manhattan real estate developer Jack Terzi, who specializes in trophy retail properties. Mr. Terzi will purchase the 1913 structure (for an undisclosed...
The former headquarters of J.P. Morgan & Company at 23 Wall Street, vacant for more than a decade, may soon house new retailers.
The City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is planning to redevelop a publicly owned site in Lower Manhattan, and has pledged to include in the project benefits such as affordable housing and a pre-kindergarten facility. But a close examination of EDC’s approach indicates that both of these bonuses may accrue to communities far removed from the...
An architect's rendering of one development proposal for the City-owned lot at 137 Centre Street.
