As a $350 million plan to reshape the New York Public Library's central branch moves forward, scholars, experts, and administrators gather to debate its efficacy
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"Is it conceivable that they could do something different? Yes,” Marx said. “But it's at least as conceivable that if we do not pursue the plan, that the $150 million disappears and we go back to the drawing board for a future administration that may be less able or less amenable to be supportive of that kind of investment."
Posted on May 23rd, 2012 10:20am
Tom Allon, the owner of a chain of community newspapers who is running for mayor in 2013, spoke to 40 potential donors yesterday at a birthday fund-raiser at the rooftop cafe of Midtown's Kimberly Hotel. Many of the attendees had gone to school with Allon at Stuyvesant High School or Cornell University. More
Posted on May 22nd, 2012 11:19am
Colicchio said the best food-truck scene was in Austin, Texas, and Huang said Portland, Oregon. Both agreed that there was a bizarre focus on a corporate customer-base for New York’s food trucks. “[You] park your truck in front of some corporate headquarters at lunch and they’ll line up," Huang said. "What’s that? Only in New York. Everybody else’s food scene’s for like the street kids, you know? Ours are for corporate America.” More
Posted on May 21st, 2012 1:35pm
Even as the organization he heads is planning to spend $30 billion on capital projects, Port Authority executive director Patrick Foye said the public is no longer willing to take government agencies at their word about how much it costs to build things. More
Posted on May 14th, 2012 1:11pm
As a parade of city politicians cycled through their rally at City Hall Park, the “13% and Growing Coalition” found themselves this afternoon, both literally and figuratively, in the center of New York’s political geography. More
Posted on May 9th, 2012 3:54pm
While acknowledging some criticisms of the new 911 system were legitimate, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the $2 billion system against reports that it has created inefficiencies and longer response times. More
Posted on May 8th, 2012 4:55pm
“I love the fact that the Kentucky Derby’s a lot like Hollywood,” Jamie Hook said, finishing a Mint Julep at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn. “Like, nobody knows anything, and yet there are these people that make careers off on the strange thing—the erudition of knowing something about which nothing can be known.”
Posted on May 7th, 2012 1:42pm
It isn’t hard these days to find mayoral candidates critical of police quotas, stop-and-frisks and the level of outside oversight of the New York Police Department.
But something less common occurred last night, as six former police officers and one active one candidly discussed their views of the problems that data-driven policies cause for the department and the public. More
Posted on May 4th, 2012 4:50pm
Da"But what I've tried to do, as I've said to you is tell you stories that I tell my friends and family when we're around the fireplace or outside around the campfire and just tell stories. Yes, I do include the circumstances under which I left CBS News, a low time in my life, but let me say it to you directly, I'm not complaining and I'm well passed it. But I've seen rain I've seen fire, I've seen sunny days, and yes, starry nights. And life goes up and down and I fully understand that."
Posted on May 3rd, 2012 9:26am
After yesterday afternoon's free concert in Union Square, thousands of demonstrators flowed out of the crowded park and south down Broadway to continue their protest in lower Manhattan.
All told, there were thousands representing traditional union-backed demonstrators, Occupy-affiliated protestors and advocates for causes like the DREAM Act and increased funding for higher education.
At first many of the groups were finely divided between clearly defined unions, but gradually gave way to a scattering of grassroots causes, homemade banners and vibrant street theater. More
Posted on May 2nd, 2012 9:44am
