Tag: Center
One World Trade Center to recapture the N.Y. skyline
Origin: American Public Media: Marketplace Single date: 4/30/2012 URL: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/one-world-trade-center-recapture-ny-skyline Sorry, Empire State Building — you had a good run. At least all this construction at One World Trade is good news for downtown Manhattan. That neighborhood is back. Right?
Category: Events
Theater Review: ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,’ With Megan Hilty, at City Center
Megan Hilty stars in the red-blooded Encores! concert staging of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” NYT > Theater
Category: Broadway
Downtown Alliance Statement on One World Trade Center
PDF: PRESS RELEASE – 1 World Trade Center 4-2012.pdf Single date: 4/30/2012 Alliance for Downtown New York President Elizabeth H. Berger issued the following statement on 1 World Trade Center becoming the tallest building in New York City: “Lower Manhattan, the nation’s fourth largest central business district, has been home to more of the world’s [...]
Category: Events
Downtown Alliance Joins Opening of Anne Frank Center USA in Lower Manhattan
PDF: Anne Frank Center 3-2012.pdf Single date: 3/15/2012 Center Joins Many Other Renowned Cultural Institutions and Historic Attractions below Chambers Street Alliance for Downtown New York President Elizabeth H. Berger speaks at the opening of the Anne Frank Center USA read more
Category: Events
Condé Nast Will Be Anchor of 1 World Trade Center
Origin: The New York Times Single date: 5/17/2011 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/nyregion/conde-nast-to-anchor-1-world-trade-center.html?_r=2&ref=freedomtowernyc Condé Nast Publications, whose stable of magazines chronicles the American zeitgeist as meticulously as any anthropologist, has reached an agreement to lease one million square feet at 1 World Trade Center, giving ground zero a much-needed corporate anchor with a proven ability to attract other [...]
Category: Events
Harlem arts/culture center back on track
A long-planned African and Hispanic arts and culture center in Central Harlem is a go after all. Developer, Full Spectrum of NY, and its partner, My Image Studios Inc., recently closed on the financing to begin construction of the 20,000-square-foot center dubbed MIST, which stands for My Image Studios, said Roland Laird, CEO of My [...]
Category: Arts
Downtown Alliance Launches New Public Art in Shadow of 4 World Trade Center
PDF: Men At Work – 9-2011.pdf Single date: 9/13/2011 Art lovers can now "walk" to "work" in Lower Manhattan. Only a few blocks from the international installation Walking Men 99 TM is the newest outdoor public art installation, Men At Work, wrapping the base of Silverstein Properties’ fast-rising 4 World Trade Center. read more
Category: Events
Lincoln Center snags Major League Baseball exec
Miriam Souccar – Lincoln Center has snagged a heavy hitter from Major League Baseball to develop its media and digital strategy. Elizabeth Scott, former vice president of programming and business affairs at MLB—and an executive producer on Brad Pitt’s new movie, Moneyball—will become the performing arts center’s first chief media and digital officer, effective Oct. [...]
Category: Arts
Foo Fighters at the Izod Center – Review
Foo Fighters, led by the energetic Dave Grohl, reflected their audience’s purest enthusiasms at an Izod Center concert on Monday. NYT > Rock Music
Category: News
Staten Island’s St. George becomes artist center
For years, whenever painter Theo Dorian confessed to his Brooklyn-based peers that he lived in Staten Island, they let him know in no uncertain terms that the borough best known for its mobster mansions, strip malls and sprawling garbage dump was no place for a self-respecting artist. They may be eating their words. To the [...]
Category: Arts
