On the afternoon of Feb. 14, Hunter College’s first senate meeting of the year came to order in room 714W of the Hunter West Building on Lexington Avenue. As 100 or so senators–Hunter students, staff and faculty who are elected to shape the college’s academic policy–and community members filed into the wood-paneled auditorium, the tension 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
For months, the building was the talk of Carnegie Hill: a 209-foot-tall, 17-story tower that would rise like a middle finger in the face of the neighborhood’s Queen Anne row houses, brownstones and private schools, filling the cherished empty space above the one-story Citibank branch at 91st Street and Madison Avenue.
Its opponents raised an Read More
