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…
Tag: Lower Manhattan
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…
Today in History: February 3
1690 – First paper money in America issued in the colony of Massachusetts 1740 – Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily 1882 – Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys his world famous elephant, Jumbo. Jumbo was born in East Africa in late 1960, was captured two years later and brought…
Spate of ‘Super-Tall’ Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households
In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank…