Daniel Libeskind has no buildings at Ground Zero to call his own.
On Oct. 12, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation announced that architect Frank Gehry, of Bilbao fame, had won the competition to design a performing-arts center at the World Trade Center. The complex will house the Joyce Theater International Dance Center and the Signature Read More
On the morning of Sept. 29, at a Crain’s Business breakfast in his honor, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff is expected to introduce the highest-profile addition yet to the swelling ranks of supporters for the proposed Jets stadium: community-newspaper movie reviewer and former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, The Observer has learned.
The former Mayor Read More
Senator Hilary Clinton had just spent several hours on Friday, Sept. 17, touring an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York about the life and times of her predecessor, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, when she and a small group of architects and urban planners took an impromptu walk upstairs to Read More
Out on the edges of the solar system, far from the orbiting paths of Jupiter and Neptune, in the icy cold of deep space, Jennifer Lopez had just been sucked into a black hole. The actress-singer-entrepreneur was sitting in a roped-off area in the corner of the American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center for Read More
A deathly silence reigned in most of the city’s high-end stores this week-except for the occasional retail Republican.
Brooks Brothers, that preppy bastion, was offering a weeklong 20 percent discount for Republicans who showed their delegate cards. On Sunday, however, the Fifth Avenue store was obscured behind scores of policemen, who stood out front scribbling Read More
There will be no formally sanctioned commemorations at the site of the former World Trade Center during the Republican National Convention, convention planners and government officials have told The Observer .
With the exception of demonstrators who will be allowed to gather across the street, Ground Zero-the birthplace of the war on terror, where President Read More
Around 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 2, a staffer from First Lady
Laura Bush’s office called Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mrs. Bush and her twin
daughters might be swinging through New York on a personal trip that day. The
front page of every major newspaper in the city was plastered with headlines
about possible terrorist threats Read More
On the afternoon of July 27, Michael Moore arrived at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on a leafy street in Brookline to address members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union who attended a screening of his anti-Bush agit-mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 . It was his second public appearance in Boston, during a Read More
Sean (P. Diddy) Combs is not known for being at a loss for words.
But the hip-hop impresario was speechless for several seconds when The Transom asked him about his own voting record at a press conference on Tuesday morning to introduce Citizen Change, the voter-registration task force that he founded. Asked about the last Read More
On the afternoon of July 27, Michael Moore arrived at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on a leafy street in Brookline to address members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union who attended a screening of his anti-Bush agit-mentary Fahrenheit 9/11 . It was his second public appearance in Boston, during a Read More
