Category: The Arts

To the editor, Hanging out for hours today on the roof terrace at Gateway. Is it a red-tail?  S/he seemed quite at home so I guess s/he’s a new neighbor. Joanne Chernow

On June 10, Gary Fagin, longtime Seaport resident and founder/music director of Lower Manhattan’s Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra (KCO), hosted the organization’s last event of the 2015/2016 season: the Hurrah for the Harbor soirée in the Melville Gallery of the South Street Seaport Museum. The program honored local parks and 100 years of the National Park Service, and…

A venerable elder statesman of the Chinese food culture has arrived in Battery Park City. Wellman Wu, proprietor of the legendary Peking Duck House restaurants on Mott Street and East 53rd Street, recently opened Ningbo, at 21 South End Avenue, overlooking South Cove. In the late 1970s and early 80s, when Chinese food was considered…

from the NPS.gov The Trophèe ďArmes that sits atop the sally port of Fort Jay is one of the most distinctive features of the fortification, and the earliest domestically carved military sculpture in the nation. Designed by Joseph Mangin, architect of New York’s City Hall, the Fort Jay Arch is a rare example of monumental architecture surviving…

On Monday evening May 23rd,  supporters of dance came to Gibney Dance Company on Broadway to partake in good food and good dance and to celebrate 25 years. Founded by Gina Gibney after she had an epiphany on the campus of Case Western and launched her life’s mission to artistic innovation and social justice through…

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of George Gustav Heye’s extraordinary collection of items as the Museum of the American Indian, a gala fundraiser on May 11th raised nearly $400,000 to support the museum and its educational programs. Located in the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green, the museum opened a…