The City's Transportation Commissioner, Iris Weinshall, is leaving for a job with CUNY. Her last day is April 13th. A statement from Weinshall, wife of Senator Chuck Schumer, is after the jump. -- Azi Paybarah STATEMENT FROM DOT COMMISSIONER IRIS WEINSHALL "It has been an honor and a privilege to spend more than 2 decades Read More
She weathered the Staten Island Ferry storm, only to resign to.... work for CUNY. The Mayor's statement after the jump. - Matthew Schuerman STATEMENT BY MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON THE RESIGNATION OF DOT COMMISSIONER IRIS WEINSHALL "When I became Mayor, the people of New York were already very fortunate to have an innovative thinker Read More
Right before Eliot Spitzer gets sworn in as the new governor, and officially starts having his name floated as a White House contender, the City College of New York has announced the creation of the first-ever Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science. The chair was created by a $2.1 million gift the Read More
Happy December! The First Lady of Zambia delivers the keynote address and receives the International AIDS Trust and World Vision New York's 2006 award at Tavern on the Green. CUNY hosts a conference on the Spellings Commission report on higher education at John Jay College. Baruch College hosts conference titled "An Avian Flu Pandemic: How Read More
At 8:30 in Midtown, CA congressional candidate Jerry McNerney has a fund-raising breakfrast. At 8:30, the Consul General of Mexico and CUNY co-sponsor a conference on Mexican immigrants in New York at Baruch College. At 9 a.m. the federal funding cuts and their impact on the future of public housing is discussed at the Read More
This week's New Yorker allows Mark Singer to take us to the 40th death-iversary of the New York Herald Tribune. The oldsters met "the other night" in their old offices, which are now taken up by the journalism grad school of the City University of New York. Old/new world speeches were made: Another speaker was Read More
Still no office towers from the city's 2004 Downtown Brooklyn Development plan, but The New York Sun carries news of a 1 million square foot mixed-use building for CUNY, an unspecified number of "private corporations" and condos to be developed by Forest City Ratner. -Matthew Schuerman (via No Land Grab)
After months of delays, George Pataki sent the name of Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, his former Jewish liaison, to the Republican-controlled state Senate for reappointment as trustee to CUNY last Friday. And it went nowhere. A spokeswoman for Senate Republicans, Lisa Black, blamed the hold-up on a technicality: Wiesenfeld's name, she said, was sent too late Read More
Another green world? [Metrop.]
The death the other day in Lebanon of Uri Grossman, 20, an Israeli soldier and the son of the novelist David Grossman, who has been a peace activist in Israel, underscores a big difference between Israeli society and ours: In Israel, the children of the elite serve in the armed forces. If the 20-year-old Read More
A small story with broad implications: the other shrouded building at Ground Zero, CUNY's Fiterman Hall, won't be torn down anytime soon. The Daily News reported over the long weekend that the state Dormitory Authority rejected all bids for its demolition because they did not fully address environmental issues. Silverstein Properties has blamed the Read More
Hyperbolic titles invite dissent. So here’s mine: What makes Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” “the poem that changed America,” as the cover of this essay collection proclaims?
Ginsberg might’ve responded by saying, as he did in a 1986 essay included here, that when San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore published “Howl” 50 years ago, changing America was Read MoreDespite the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in the Kelo case last June, battles over eminent domain are certainly not going away any time soon. As The New York Times reported this week, there are plenty of critics in both parties. In a rare display of unanimity that cuts across partisan and geographic lines, lawmakers Read More
One could be forgiven for thinking the city's financial condition is in pretty great shape these days. Recent articles about the local economy have been filled with cheerful words such as "recovery," "surplus" and "surge." When it was announced last month that the city would end this fiscal year with an unexpected $3.3 billion surplus, Read More
The old debate about the value of a journalism degree became slightly more interesting with the creation of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the Monday-afternoon appointment of Stephen B. Shepard, the current editor in chief of BusinessWeek, as its new dean.
The school is scheduled to embrace Read More
