C. Virginia Fields Modifies Stance On
St. John the Divine Landmarking
While Morningside Heights preservationists and Community Board 9 continue to lobby against Columbia University’s proposed development on the property of St. John the Divine, activists and board members have their immediate sights trained on an unlikely target: Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields. Read More
L.E.S. Boys’ Club For Sale:
Strings Are Attached The members of Community Board 3 have never been sympathetic toward lower Manhattan’s largest nonprofits trolling for space in their neighborhood. Their opposition to such development runs so deep that when a major city nonprofit announced last month that it would put its Lower East Side facility Read More
After more than four decades at New York University, Neil Postman is preparing to step down as chairman of that school’s Department of Culture and Communication-leaving a second major vacancy in New York media teaching.
Mr. Postman, a protégé of Marshall McLuhan and the author of such books as Amusing Ourselves to Death , is Read More
The Town Board of Southampton is taking steps to curb what they say is the endless party at a gaggle of East Quogue share houses-made famous recently as one of the tangier locales in Barbara Kopple’s otherwise sweet “reality mini-series,” The Hamptons .
DavidGilmartin,thetownattorneyfor Southampton, which has jurisdiction in East Quogue, said that a group Read More
