Posted on November 22, 2021 at 10:20 am by Carol Tannenhauser
Sunrise through the El Dorado. Photo by Jeff French Segall.
November 22, 2021 Weather: Cloudy, with a high of 50 degrees.
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The Landmarks Preservation Commission sent Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman back to the drawing board to “trim” the Norman Foster-designed glass penthouse they want to build on top of 6-16 West 77th Street, Crain’s reported. This followed criticism by building residents. “’It’s almost mocking us,’ [Belle Horwitz] said of the design, which she described as ‘a deliberately discordant project whose sole objective is to call attention to itself.’” This is “upper-class warfare…most riveting and frequently delicious….” Ginia Bellafante wrote in The New York Times. To round things out, the existing penthouse — made of pink stucco — was previously owned by Nancy Friday, the feminist author of My Mother/My Self.
The far-right Proud Boys paid a visit to Trump International Hotel and Tower, at 1 CPW, on Saturday, and proceeded to march in circles around its sign, as anti-vaxxers protested across the street in Central Park, the Hill Reporter and Raw Story reported.
“A racially-charged revolt has erupted at a high-performing Upper West Side public school, with embattled Principal Claire Lowenstein hit with her second no-confidence vote in just two years,” the New York Post reported. “Of a total 154 staffers and parents polled last week, 132 — about 86 percent — voted no confidence in Lowenstein’s leadership of PS 333 on West 93rd Street.” The main issues are discriminatory hiring practices and treatment of paraprofessionals, most of whom are people of color. “Many paraprofessionals express to me they feel as though they are being treated like ‘the help’ in a nearly all-white school, a PS 333 teacher said.” A DOE spokesperson said that “.”
As a first-term candidate for mayor, Bill de Blasio pledged to ban horse-drawn carriages on his first day in office. “Eight years later, with just six weeks left in office, Mr. de Blasio is trying one last time to fulfill that pledge. His administration is developing legislation that would phase out the use of the carriages in Central Park and replace them with [electric] ‘show cars,’ according to a series of internal City Hall emails marked ‘confidential’ that were sent between late October and last week and reviewed by The New York Times.” Maybe he meant his first day as governor.
In the entire city, only one religious-based homeless shelter has reopened since Covid shut them all down — Church of the Ascension, on 107th Street, between Amsterdam and Broadway. “Before COVID, there were dozens of shelters like Ascension’s in places of worship,” Curbed reported. “When they were all up and running, unhoused people might have stayed at an Upper West Side church one night, a Park Slope synagogue the next, and so on. But in March of last year, as the pandemic began devastating New York, every one closed its doors….Only the one at Ascension has reopened.”
What really happened at Carmine’s Restaurant (91st and Broadway), back in September, between a hostess and a group of tourists from Texas with proof of vaccination problems? A Carmine’s employee, who was there, shared his experience with The Cut. “Matt was shaken. Little did he know the initial incident was about to escalate to a new level of clusterfuck: By Monday…he would find himself showing up to his shift in the middle of a Black Lives Matter protest. Bill O’Reilly would do a segment about the event. The restaurant would become a mayoral campaign stop….A host of competing parties with competing agendas would have something to say about what happened at Carmine’s, each seeing exactly what they wanted to see.”
Take a tour of an available $10 million duplex in the Apthorp, a New York City landmark on Broadway between 78th and 79th, built by William Waldorf Astor in 1908. “The Apthorp is recognizable by its Italian Renaissance Revival architectural details and grand landscaped courtyard and driveway,” writes 6ftsq. Read WSR’s story about what it’s really like to live at the Apthorp here.
The Rag honors the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the day he was killed in 1963. “As we express our gratitude,” he said, one Thanksgiving long ago, “we must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
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