The Snohetta building, whose fate was uncertain after the International Freedom Center got shooed away last fall, just got $80 million closer to reality. That's the amount Governor Pataki is earmarking for the building in his executive budget, according to a source. And, because the building has shrunk considerably, that will be enough for its Read More
The immediate threat of a bomb attack on the city’s subway system is apparently over, and may have been little more than a hoax by an overseas informant hoping to cash in on some bad information. Even if that turns out to be the case, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly did exactly Read More
The immediate threat of a bomb attack on the city’s subway system is apparently over, and may have been little more than a hoax by an overseas informant hoping to cash in on some bad information. Even if that turns out to be the case, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly did exactly Read More
Tom Bernstein, the co-founder of the International Freedom Center, was revising his notes for the public presentation he would make at a Tribeca elementary school that night, in which he’d attempt to persuade neighborhood residents to support his controversial museum plan for Ground Zero. Then the Governor’s office called, at about 4:45 p.m. on Sept. Read More
Members of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation board were so exercised by the Governor usurping their authority over the International Freedom Center that some of them spoke in public for the first time in months at this morning's meeting. “I just find the decision by the Governor to be just indefensible,” said Edward Read More
Tom Bernstein and Peter Kunhardt, co-founders of the embryonic International Freedom Center at Ground Zero, could once take solace in the idea that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on their side. He had intimated as much. And it was his right-hand man at Ground Zero, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff, who stood up for the Freedom Center Read More
The International Freedom Center put its defense (pdf) online this morning: larger board of directors, more details about the exhibits and lots of letters of support from other museums around the country. Michael McKeon, Governor Pataki’s former aide , is now the public relations rep for the center. Will he do better Read More
Despite all the bubble-talk, diving into real estate might not be the best move for would-be brokers,according to Slate. While New York Magazine warned a few weeks ago about broker glut, The Times reported this weekend about the phenomenon on Long Island where you can get certified in only a week (and Read More
With everyone's attention diverted to plans for stadiums and symbolic spires, Charles Bagli reports that there's been plenty of development happening over on the East Side of Manhattan. The Daily News provides both an article and an editorial about "museums of conscience" putting in their two cents concerning the proposed International Freedom Read More
If Daniel Libeskind’s word is gold at Ground Zero, then the controversial International Freedom Center is going to get rich. The earnest master planner has long since been cut out of the daily action, but he gets hauled in to bless each change to his acclaimed site plan. His assent, therefore, would most likely be Read More
If Daniel Libeskind’s word is gold at Ground Zero, then the controversial International Freedom Center is going to get rich.
The earnest master planner has long since been cut out of the daily action, but he gets hauled in to bless each change to his acclaimed site plan. His assent, therefore, would most likely be needed Read More
Plans and passions are clashing at Ground Zero. A rancorous debate about what constitutes an appropriate commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks has been rumbling for weeks. The row is focused on two institutions that will augment the main memorial at the World Trade Center site. The International Freedom Center (I.F.C.) and the Drawing Center Read More
Plans and passions are clashing at Ground Zero.
A rancorous debate about what constitutes an appropriate commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks has been rumbling for weeks. The row is focused on two institutions that will augment the main memorial at the World Trade Center site. The International Freedom Center (I.F.C.) and the Drawing Center will Read MoreLong before the city's cultural organizations were thinking about what they might do at Ground Zero, Tom Bernstein, the president of Chelsea Piers, made his pitch for a museum about freedom in a series of private meetings with city and state officials.
Mr. Bernstein had never founded a museum before; nor had the filmmaker friend he'd Read More
