Students and other demonstrators who gathered in the main Quad of Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus yesterday were aware of the significance of the date they chose for their class walkout, a day after the 40th anniversary of the first in a wave of protests that rocked the campus in 1968.
Around noon, a couple Read More
On Sunday, March 30, about 100 people, some rather done up, were cramming the small performance space at the New Dance Group studios, a few blocks from Port Authority in midtown, for the sold-out Miss Manhattan and Miss Southern New York beauty pageants.
Kristen Caesar, 25, a graduate student at New York University who Read More
News yesterday that Madison Square Garden’s owner, the Dolan family, will renovate instead of moving across the street to the Farley Post Office seemed to doom the planned Moynihan Station, but the head of the project said today he thinks the family’s decision "isn’t irrevocable."
"We just need a lot of strong public Read More
The number of new building permits issued in New York City this January and February was down about 40 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the city’s Department of Buildings.
Building permits, which augur future construction, are a strong indicator of how robust the real estate market is, and the Read More
A couple of hours into the Frick Collection’s Annual Young Fellows Ball on Thursday, March 13, socialite powerhouse Tinsley Mortimer seriously needed a break.
It had been a long week of benefits. The American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday (which Ms. Mortimer had helped chair), then the Museum of the City of New Read More
Developers are getting a chunk of extra time to bid on Hunter College’s Brookdale campus site, a 4.2-acre city block in Kips Bay that CUNY is seeking to sell.
CUNY, which owns the property and put out a request for proposals in December, has extended its bid deadline from March 7 to May 22, Read More
In the middle of a trunk show held Saturday at her Madison Avenue store, Donna Karan peered at the half-eaten mini-cupcake that her 4-year-old granddaughter, Stefania, had just pressed into her palm.
“Why don’t you like it?” Ms. Karan asked. “I have never seen you give a cupcake away.” Stefania, who was wearing a Read More
Virginia-based AvalonBay Communities is running into trouble with its quest to open up a host of restaurants on the Lower East Side, as a community wary of liquor licenses is poised to stand in the developer’s path.
At AvalonBay’s new apartment building, Avalon Bowery Place, at 11 East First Street, just across from a Read More
Time was, Upper East Siders had to push their designer strollers quite a few blocks to reach a single shop that sold cashmere mittens for infants or pima cotton polos for toddlers.
Not anymore. Children’s clothing boutiques have taken the neighborhood by storm, joining a few relative old-timers that opened in the 1980’s and Read More
