Tag: City
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
The Greatest City on Earth Comes to Lower Manhattan
PDF: ReCon Greatest City in the World 1-2012.pdf Single date: 1/23/2012 The Greatest City on Earth by Linda Zacks Come see The Greatest City on Earth in the greatest neighborhood on earth! Today, the Alliance for Downtown New York announced the latest Re:Construction installation, The Greatest City on Earth, located at Nassau between John and [...]
Category: Events
The Five Coolest Coworking Space in New York City
Origin: The Next Web Single date: 8/17/2011 URL: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/17/the-5-coolest-coworking-spaces-in-new-york-city/ This article lists the “5 Coolest Coworking Spaces” in NYC. Of course, Hive at 55 gets a mention.
Category: Events
Stalled construction projects litter the city
Origin: Crain's New York Business Single date: 8/1/2011 URL: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110731/REAL_ESTATE/307319977 One solution for the city’s stalled construction projects has been popular for some time. The Downtown Alliance created a public art program dubbed Re:Construction in 2006 to make active sites less obtrusive.
Category: Events
City Opera unions agree to resume negotiations
New York City Opera and the unions representing its singers and musicians held a brief meeting Monday morning with the help of a mediator, where they agreed to return to the negotiating table on Jan. 3. The beleaguered opera company, which announced earlier this year that it could no longer afford to stay at Lincoln [...]
Category: Arts
New York City Opera faces tragedy over union contracts
The once venerable New York City Opera is hanging by a thread, despite a radical restructuring that has seen it abandon its Lincoln Center home and slash costs. The beleaguered company’s future now hinges on its ability to make a deal with the orchestra and singers’ unions, both of which have passed strike-authorization votes and [...]
Category: Arts
Diverse 9/11 tributes planned for the city
It’s not just cultural groups that will be honoring the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11. Groups across the city—including research centers, parks and even a comic book association—are planning events to mark the day. One such group is the Manhattan Institute, which will be hosting a series of panels with experts on New York City [...]
Category: Arts
The New York City culture club
Donations to arts and cultural nonprofits suffered with the recession, as funding dried up for music, opera, dance, and other performing and visual arts, and many philanthropists shifted their charitable efforts toward more basic human needs, like hunger or health. Arts giving nationwide fell by around 2% last year, according to Giving USA, and in [...]
Category: Arts
Cultural groups rejoice as city restores proposed cuts
Miriam Kreinin Souccar – After yet another year of in which local cultural institutions were threatened by proposed deep budget cuts from the city, nearly all the money was restored in the final budget for this fiscal year. The cultural institutions group—made up of all the arts groups in city-owned building ranging from the Metropolitan [...]
Category: Arts
New York City museums drawing record crowds
The picture is getting very pretty at the city’s museums. A combination of record tourism, New Yorkers’ preference for cheaper entertainment given the still shaky economy, and a number of strong exhibitions is drawing massive crowds to many institutions. At the Guggenheim Museum, average monthly attendance so far this year is up 28% over last [...]
Category: Arts
