The school’s chairman and biggest benefactor, Bruce Kovner, had wanted its president, Damian Woetzel, to leave after a negative evaluation. He marshaled support and stayed. Source: New York Times
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He’s Springing Forward to Move City Clocks to Daylight Time
By Gotham Rex on March 11, 2022
Marvin Schneider, the New York City clock master, has a busy weekend ahead. Source: New York Times
Beeple Is Trying His Hand at Artwork for Walls
By Gotham Rex on March 4, 2022
The digital artist known for NFTs is showing paintings and prints IRL at a Manhattan gallery. Will the art establishment finally take notice? Source: New York Times
How a Boutique-Fragrance Expert Spends Her Sundays
By Gotham Rex on March 4, 2022
Kimberly Waters runs a perfume parlor, of sorts, out of her Harlem townhouse. Source: New York Times
A Broadway Conductor's Difficult Journey Back from Long Covid
By Gotham Rex on February 24, 2022
A celebrated Broadway conductor caught Covid in the first wave. Two despairing years later, he is finally reclaiming his old life, breath by breath. Source: New York Times
How Adrienne Adams, NYC Council Speaker, Is Navigating Tackling Crime
By Gotham Rex on February 21, 2022
Adrienne Adams, the new City Council speaker, is playing a leading role as New York officials confront a spike in violence that has gained national attention. Source: New York Times
Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself
By Gotham Rex on February 18, 2022
With collaborators like Miranda July and Evan Rachel Wood, Angela Trimbur stands out among social-media-savvy choreographers whose accessible movement found audiences during the pandemic. Source: New York Times
How Kathy Hochul Went From Unexpected Governor to Clear Front-Runner
By Gotham Rex on February 16, 2022
New York’s first female governor, who quickly and quietly assembled a campaign juggernaut, will get the Democratic Party’s backing in her re-election campaign on Thursday. Source: New York Times
How Eric Adams Mixes Tough Talk With Superfood Smoothies
By Gotham Rex on February 14, 2022
Mr. Adams has tied his interest in nutrition, meditation and fitness to his views on how to lead New York at a challenging time. Source: New York Times
BAM Taps Former Leader of Its Film Program as Its Next President
By Gotham Rex on February 8, 2022
Gina Duncan, who had been working at the Sundance Institute since 2020, will return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to lead it out of the pandemic. Source: New York Times
When Life Changed, Reiki, Tarot and a Home Redo Were There to Help
By Gotham Rex on January 31, 2022
Helen Ho was laid off from her urban planning job at the beginning of the pandemic. She saw it as a chance to focus on the things she really liked doing. Source: New York Times
A Staunch Critic of the N.Y.P.D. Grapples With Deaths of 2 Officers
By Gotham Rex on January 26, 2022
Harlem Councilwoman Kristin Richardson Jordan, who has equated the policing system to slavery, is now considering how to deliver her message in a district mourning for two officers. Source: New York Times
Notes From the End of a Very Long Life by New York's Oldest
By Gotham Rex on January 6, 2022
With the death of Ruth Willig at 98, a Times series on a set of the oldest New Yorkers — chronicled over seven years in 21 articles — offers their lessons on living with loss. Source: New York Times
For One Rockaways Couple, Lockdown Was a Creative Windfall
By Gotham Rex on January 3, 2022
While many hoped to use the enforced isolation of quarantine creatively, the couple who started Locus of Occult actually did. Source: New York Times
Eric Adams Takes Office as New York City's Mayor
By Gotham Rex on January 1, 2022
Eric Adams, the city’s second Black mayor, faces difficult decisions over how to lead New York City through the next wave of the pandemic. Source: New York Times