Charles Barron may be hoping that the artwork removed from the Committee Room in City Hall will usher in some diversity on the walls.
But actually, it's just being restored.
According to mayoral spokesman Jason Post, the portrait that was removed is of Robert Anderson and was painted by William Powell Read More
The Pataki administration failed to hold onto the Farley Post Office in the last moments of 2006, but negotiations are continuing, this time under Governor Spitzer’s purview. In late December, Charles Gargano, then-chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, announced a last-minute blitz to renew the option that the state had to buy the Read More
The Independent publishes newly-discovered evidence that a Polish barber named Kosminski was the serial murderer who killed 5 prostitutes in London in 1888, and says he was never questioned because he was insane.
The story turns on a renovated police crime museum that is not open to the public:
One of the new exhibits Read MoreLittle Fugue, by Robert Anderson. Ballantine, 384 pages, $24.95.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the death of a beautiful woman “is the most poetical topic in the world.” There could hardly be a less wholesome assertion in American criticism (unless it’s Camille Paglia’s assertion that children are sexy), but it’s true that the profound Read More
