Month: April 2018

EYES TO THE SKY April 16 – 29, 2018

Towers of house lights, office tower lights, store lights, floodlights, streetlights, car lights, stadium lights, illuminated signage, decorative lights. Artificial light at night, indoors and outdoors, is second nature to us. But now that we’ve conquered darkness we’re learning that darkness is necessary to life on Earth – and becoming scarce. For billions of years,...

Splitting the Difference

To the editor, We appreciate your article this week titled “Splitting the Difference,”  (BroadsheetDAILY, April 9) though do wish you had reached out to us for comment as it inadvertently wound up missing a major element of the story.  We write today to ask you to expand upon the initial article in a subsequent piece....

A Perfect Day for “Raining Poetry”

The Battery Park City Authority and Poets House are partnering with Lower Manhattan schools to put odes on the roads. And today is the perfect day for it! The “Raining Poetry” program inscribes evocative excerpts from poets such as Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and U.S. Poet Laureate (also Pulitzer Prize winner) Tracy K. Smith on...

‘It’ll Be a Great Park If They Ever Finish It…’

In the new State budget, Governor Andrew Cuomo has pledged $50 million to complete the Hudson River Park, which was originally slated for completion in 2006. But this offer comes with a large string attached: his political sparring partner, Mayor Bill de Blasio, must match this with $50 million in City funding. This total of...
The recent announcement that the State and City will contribute a total of $100 million toward the completion of the Hudson River Park may overstate how important those allocations actually are.

An Avant-Garde Bargain

The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University is currently exhibiting its annual repertory season of plays at the 3-Legged Dog (3LD) Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan. This weekend, and during the following four weeks, the two organizations are partnering to offer six shows staged by students graduating with MFA degrees in acting,...
Actors, writers, and directors about to graduate from the acclaimed Actors Studio are staging free plays for the next four weeks at the 3-Legged Dog performance space on Greenwich Street.

The Dispossessed

The suffering continues for tenants of 85 Bowery, who were driven from their homes on January 18, after inspectors from the City’s Department of Buildings (DOB) determined that an interior staircase in the building was unstable, and in danger of collapsing. More than 75 residents of the building — including 17 young children and dozens...
The scene at 85 Bowery on January 18, when residents were notified in the middle of the night that they had to vacate the premises immediately.