Coincidence$   >>UPDATED

Coincidence$ >>UPDATED<<

UPDATE!  The TIMES is reporting that the hearing is off.   Mayor de Blasio’s rushed, behind-the-scenes Horse Carriage deal  heads to a vote at City Council this  Friday, February 5th, at 12 noon Also on the agenda?  Increasing City Council Member pay by 32%! Coincidence$? While Mayor de Blasio denies it,...
Stable Instability

Stable Instability

Late Sunday night, news broke that Mayor de Blasio had hammered out an agreement with the Horse Carriage operators that would keep many of them in NYC.  As the details have begun to unfold, so has the outrage. Under the proposal, the number of horses will reduce from approximately 200 to 95 at maximum.  Up to seventy-five will be housed...
Ever-expanding and Kaleidoscopic Change

Ever-expanding and Kaleidoscopic Change

By Claudie Benjamin Columbus Circle has been a moving target for decades with its character and the geography of its traffic routes changing over time.  In the early 1940s, artist Henry E. Schnakenberg (1892-1970) who then lived on West End Avenue, captured the vitality of the southeast corner of West 58th Street. The painting, now part...