She gives a whole new meaning to insider art.
Bronx woman Carolyn Stanford, 56, has become a part-time art dealer for inmates at prisons, helping them turn their canvases into profit.
Ms. Stanford told DNAinfo.com that she first came up with the idea while visiting her son in a California prison, where Read More
The Real Bronx Tour is burning.
Real Bronx Tours, a company that took European tourists on a scenic tour of a “real New York City ghetto,” has stopped all their tours in the South Bronx.
For $45 a tour, the group chauffeured tourists around the rough parts of the borough that still resemble the turbulent times of Read More
New York City’s public housing complexes are small cities unto themselves, sealed off from the grid and flow of surrounding streets, pinwheels of bricks and concrete with scant patches of green. Built in 1956, Forest Houses, a 46-building New York City Housing Authority complex in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, is characteristic of its era. Besides the fact that the buildings top out at two stories, they do not relate to their immediate environment, let alone the environment.
More than 50 years later, affordable housing remains one of the city’s greatest challenges (if not its greatest). The architecture, on the other hand, has improved considerably. Arbor House, a privately-owned 124-unit, housing complex that abuts Forest Houses, opened today at 770 East 166th Street. It boasts not only energy-efficient features and a living green wall, but also a 10,000 square foot hydroponic rooftop farm. Read More
The heatwave this weekend pushed many New Yorkers to their local pools and beaches, but unfortunately, some destinations were too befouled for bathing. Read More
The acting in Nancy Savoca’s Union Square is so strong it almost makes you forget what a total zero the rest of this undernourished little throwaway film really is. Like another overpraised female director, Lynn Shelton, and her latest chamber-music tedium, Your Sister’s Sister, this lazy little tone poem about two rival and disparate sisters is a talkathon going nowhere. Nothing worth repeating is ever uttered, and nothing worth remembering ever happens. Mercifully, it is over in 80 minutes. Read More
What happens when your brother tops the list of the worst landlords in Manhattan? You grab those lemon buildings and make lemon-aid, obviously!
City Limits published a letter from Amy Neustein, the upset sister of Josh Neustein, the owner of 1071 Home Corp who recently ranked first in Bill de Blasio’s “Worst Landlords in New York.” Read More
We were inside the West Ballroom at The Hilton New York, on the hunt for available seats when a large and friendly man sitting dead center in the front row waved us over and asked us to sit with him.
That friendly man was Bruce Ratner, head of Forest City Ratner Companies, who had no idea that he had just invited two reporters from The Commercial Observer to join him. Read More
At some level, it’s not exactly a huge surprise to learn that there are people in New York who can make certain kinds of tickets disappear. Doesn’t everyone know somebody who claims to know somebody who can take care of these annoyances?
It shouldn’t be that way, because it’s not fair–most of the time, anyway. Read More
By now we’ve grown so used to bedbugs and the odd cockroach in our apartments, we’ve practically adopted them as house pets. But imagine waking up one morning to a snake in your toilet.
“Yikes! Snakes in the can!” begins the
Today there’s word that our two forthcoming ballparks, the Mets’ Citi Field and the new Yankee Stadium, will open within a couple of days of each other this coming spring. The Mets stadium will host its first game April 14th, while the inaugural game at the House that Ruth Did Not Build will Read More
