Month: February 2016

They Campaigned in Poetry, But Will Govern in Prose

With over 60,000 volumes of poetry, over 80,000 visitors annually and millions of viewers online, Poets House sets the standard for national literary programming. Nicholas Potter On February 12, America’s poetry library elected new leadership to its board of directors. Nicholas Potter was elected president of the board of directors, has been a member of...

Sight Unseen

The management team at the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) asked members of the agency’s board to approve more than 100 pages of financial statements and regulatory filings that only one of them had read, because the documents were legally required to be submitted to State overseers 48 hours later. At the January 27 meeting...

How Gold Street Got Its Name, But Might as Well Been Dubbed for Another Color

The origins of “Gold Street” — in the heart of Manhattan’s Financial District — are easy to imagine. After all, the surrounding collective wealth is almost unimaginable. The Federal Reserve Bank alone stands guard over seven thousand tons of gold, worth more than $250 billion. But there was gold in the neighborhood long before Wall...

Monkeying Around

A capacity crowd of several hundred diplomats, financiers, academics, and entertainment celebrities packed the Cipriani 42nd Street ballroom last Friday to welcome the Year of the Monkey with the China Institute, the nation’s leading nonprofit devoted to fostering closer ties between China and the United States. Banker and philanthropist Ted Wang, who serves on the...

Getting Left Back

The February 5 meeting of the School Overcrowding Task Force, a joint panel convened by elected officials representing Lower Manhattan, was the forum for discussing some good news and some bad news. On the positive side, this session marked the opening of a dialog with City officials about expanding plans for the recently announced new...

Tribeca Committee Meets Tonight

Tribeca Committee Meets Tonight Crane Disaster * Bogardus Plaza * Pier 26 AGENDA 1) Crane Accident on Worth Street at 60 Hudson Street – Discussion 2) 52 Walker Street, application for alteration of liquor license for KNH Enterprises LLC d/b/a M1-5 – Resolution 3) Bogardus Plaza – Update by Victoria Weil, President, Friends of Bogardus...