Just as downtown Manhattan was re-invented after the Great Fire of 1835, when hundreds of buildings in the financial district burned to the ground, it is once again being transformed after 9/11. As the neighborhood rebuilds, cultural institutions are looking for a place alongside the cathedrals of commerce, a development that promises to make lower Read More
On the afternoon of March 16, at a hurriedly called meeting of the City Council’s Education Committee at City Hall, it soon became obvious that the Board of Education had done a miserable job of launching the first-ever privatization of city schools.
No one was happy. City Council members were angry that Edison Schools, a Read More
When Mayor Rudolph Giuliani chose Jennifer Raab, a lawyer and onetime issues director for his campaign, to chair the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1994, the city’s vocal preservation community was outraged because Ms. Raab had no experience in the field. They accused Mr. Giuliani of using the Commission’s chairmanship as a political patronage post.
Now, Read More
In an industry where salespeople have been known to comb the obituaries for business leads, the torrent of speculation over what would become of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s TriBeCa apartment after his death on July 16 was no big surprise. The magazine publisher’s 2,600-square-foot apartment, a penthouse co-op in a modest loft building at 20-26 Read More
