Life & Culture

IBM Thinks It Can Run A Brooklyn School

8 March 2011

Come this September Paul Robeson High School in Crown Heights will be no more. Slated for closure by the Department of Education (DOE), it will be replaced by a new public high school underwritten by tech giant IBM and other funders. To be known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or “P-Tech,” this [...]

Wireless City

Tomorrow evening the Municipal Art Society will host a panel discussion on the future of digital connectivity in New York City. ‘Wireless City: Can All New Yorkers Get Connected?’ will feature a keynote from Rachel Sterne, the newly appointed 27-year-old ‘Chief Digital Officer’ for the city. A panel moderated by NY1′s technology reporter Adam Balkin [...]

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Spring Cleaning at the Panorama

The Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art was closed today for some spring cleaning. The QMA’s Facebook page posted some great photos of the Godzilla-sized caretakers vacuuming the Hudson River and dusting off the Palisades. Built by Robert Moses for the 1964-65 World’s Fair, the massive 9,335 square [...]

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‘Automat’ at Grand Central

Commuters trudging through Grand Central Terminal today were treated to some free food and ads (there’s always a catch) for NBC’s new reality series, America’s Next Great Restaurant. A mock automat was set up in Vanderbilt Hall and menu items inspired by the show were available for the taking–though the mechanical element that defined the [...]

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Lost Hat

What? What is it, 1911 out there? That or a troupe of cabaret singers or Englishmen or (likely) some hipster had too much fun on the bar crawl.

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Bedbugs and You

As bedbugs continue on their inevitable march toward the complete domination of our fair city, the Museum of the City of New York offers concerned citizens a primer on our new overlords. Next week, the panel taking part in “Plague!: Bed Bug Myths and Realities” will examine how bedbugs have proliferated (since the ban on [...]

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Despite Weak Economy, Retail Chains Expand in NYC

The Center for an Urban Future’s third annual ranking of national retail chains in New York City found that despite the floundering economy, chain stores have expanded 4.1% overall in the city. The largest percentage of expansion occurred in Brooklyn (5.3%), while Manhattan housed the largest number of chain stores (2,746), followed by Queens (1,479), [...]

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