Posted by in New York on 08 31st, 2010 | No Comments
Brooklyn College Defends Controversial Book Choice
Brooklyn College Defends Controversial Book Choice
After being accused of attempting to indoctrinate students with a supposedly pro-Palestine book by alumnus Bruce Kesler, who wrote on his blog that he has written his alma mater out of his will , Brooklyn College is defending their now-controversial choice for their “Common Reader” program....
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Posted by in New York on 08 17th, 2010 | No Comments
Parents Ready to Fight at City Education Panel
Parents Ready to Fight at City Education Panel
Reacting to a drop in test scores this school year, angry parents decided that bullhorns were a necessity at an education panel last night. “ Where is the accountability ?,” asked one parent whose son’s scores had dropped. “Do your work for our children” said another. The...
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Posted by in New York on 08 17th, 2010 | No Comments
Pneumatic Tubes, Swedes the Key to Roosevelt Island Trash
Pneumatic Tubes, Swedes the Key to Roosevelt Island Trash
Get back in your hole, Swede! (Jonathan Snyder/ Wired.com ) Wired.com has a fascinating photo feature on the sanitation system that serves Roosevelt Island’s 16 residential towers, which all rely on pneumatic tubes for their trash disposal. The system was installed 35 years ago and has a 40-year...
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Posted by in New York on 08 14th, 2010 | No Comments
Brooklyn High School Grows Organic Produce in Front Yard
Brooklyn High School Grows Organic Produce in Front Yard
The High School for Public Service in East Flatbush is harvesting around 500 lbs. of organic produce a week from its 10,000 square foot front yard vegetable garden. Principal Ben Shuldiner. told the Daily News , “The goal was to create a focal point for learning about healthier eating. Sadly,...
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Posted by in New York on 08 14th, 2010 | No Comments
"Marinating" Cat Adjusting Well to New Home
"Marinating" Cat Adjusting Well to New Home
It’s a happy ending for Oliver (formerly Navarro) the cat! Upon reading of the animal’s traumatizing ordeal of being left marinating in peppers and oil in the trunk of his former owner’s car, Vickie Dankowski of Cheektowaga decided it was her job to give the cat a good home. She told...
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Posted by in New York on 08 11th, 2010 | No Comments
Some Museums Want to Sell Art to Make Ends Meet
Some Museums Want to Sell Art to Make Ends Meet
The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( wallyg on Flickr ) A bill to prevent cultural institutions from selling artworks to cover costs has been opposed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other organizations—and it has pretty much died in the State Legislature. Museums generally...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Purple People Eaters: Barbs Still Being Traded Over Provincetown Playhouse
Purple People Eaters: Barbs Still Being Traded Over Provincetown Playhouse
NYU has unwrapped its new Wilf Hall law school building on MacDougal Street, which is built above and around part of the shell of the Village’s old Provincetown Playhouse . The battle to preserve the theater was a fairly bitter one (and not all of the original structure survived ), but NYU’s...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 08 6th, 2010 | No Comments
In Contract: The most exciting listing to hit…
In Contract: The most exciting listing to hit…
The most exciting listing to hit the Long Island real estate scene in as long as we’ve been paying attention, the Amityville Horror House , has found a buyer! No news yet on how much it sold for, but it was asking $1.15 million, and sources tell Newsday the buyers are a retiree couple who are...
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Posted by in New York on 08 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Our College Students Are Sad
Our College Students Are Sad
The Princeton Review ’s annual “Best Colleges” list—based on surveys of 122,000 students at the 373 schools—features seven New York schools! Way to go, right? Except those seven schools are getting called out for containing the unhappiest students in the nation. (All the...
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Posted by in New York on 07 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Are Cop Sex Charges Just Smokescreen for Bigger Scandal?
Are Cop Sex Charges Just Smokescreen for Bigger Scandal?
After a year-long investigation, the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau has brought departmental charges against two officers who engaged in hanky panky and lied about it when confronted. Deputy Inspector Valentim Neves and his subordinate Officer Mareli Hnatko face dismissal from the force after...
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