AM New York today examines the controversy surrounding Harlem’s shuttered Victoria Theater:
Local developer Steve Williams of Danforth Development Partners, LLC, wants to transform the 1917 burlesque theater into a 30-story condo/hotel, cutting up the ornate 2, 400-seat theater into two mini-theaters while preserving the facade and parts of the lobby.
Neighborhood activists Read More
Ronald McDonald walked onto the stage of the Apollo Theater on Wednesday night to introduce the first two performers during the venue’s weekly Amateur Night.
The handful of young children in the audience were delighted, but others seemed confused by the appearance of such an incongruous corporate mascot on the hallowed Harlem stage.
A man Read More
Maybe this shouldn’t come as a shock, but it looks like some of the earliest pushback to Andrew Cuomo’s plan to review member items is coming from within his own party.
Here’s a sort of pre-emptive argument that Assemblyman Peter Rivera of the Bronx made to me earlier about the standard that Cuomo might Read More
Wednesday 8th
Cannes on Canal? Or voyage to hell ? You make the call! Stuyvesant kids fire up their light sabers ( bzzzz! ) as the Tribeca Film Festival -Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Valentine to terrorist-ravaged downtown-begins today with far too many screenings, panels and parties for one lone columnist to get Read More
