The New Yorker - From its beginnings, in the Renaissance courts of Europe, the art of ballet has maintained a constant conversation with classicism; its great champion Louis XIV saw himself as a latter-day Apollo. The allure of antiquity was particularly strong
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‘There is nobody who will cover this’ – A battered New York press and the hope of The City
Columbia Journalism Review - Local news has taken a beating in New York in recent years. Unless they’re on watch, New York’s papers risk losing touch with the city and the people living in it. Research shows that a decline in local news contributes to a drop in civic awareness and participation. On the bright...
NYT 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend: ‘WORKS AND PROCESS: REID BARTELME AND HARRIET JUNG’
The New York Times - ‘WORKS AND PROCESS: REID BARTELME AND HARRIET JUNG’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (April 28-29, 7:30 p.m.). The exhibition “Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes,” which opened at N.Y.U.’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in March, connects...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Celebrates the Completion of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Water Garden Conservation Project
The Brooklyn Eagle - Amidst the emerging cherry blossoms, Brooklyn Botanic Garden revealed an ambitious conservation project on Tuesday that would reduce its freshwater consumption and its stormwater runoff by millions of gallons (each) per year. The $13 million project, which is the first of its kind in North America, uses underground pipes to recirculate...
Cherry Tree Blooms Greet New Water Conservation Project at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden was in prime bloom today to celebrate the completion of a multi-year project to make the garden more sustainable. The ribbon was cut today on an earth friendly water conservation project that collects, filters and recirculates rain and groundwater through the garden. The water project also involved the...
How Dangerous Is It to Be a Bird in Your City? Buildings Kill Hundreds of Millions a Year
The New York Times - Every year, millions of birds migrating at night, often distracted by bright city lights, die by flying into American buildings. Now a study shows where they may be most at risk — and how efforts to save them might be honed.
The city gets a new news source: The City
The New York Times - New York City used to be awash in newspapers. At one point, there were at least seven dailies, including The Herald Tribune (closed in 1966) and New York Newsday (closed in 1995). The internet was supposed to help news outlets find audiences, but sustainable...
Weill Cornell Medicine Hosts 8th Annual Leon Levy Fellows in Neuroscience Symposium
The Leon Levy Fellowship in Neuroscience symposium brought together premier early-career scientists at the five leading neuroscience research institutions in New York City: Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NYU Langone Health, The Rockefeller University, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. One scientist from each school presented original research on topics...
Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve is now a BGCI Accredited Botanic Garden – and the first in the Bahamas!
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) was established in 1987 to link the botanic gardens of the world in a global network for plant conservation. BGCI is an independent UK charity with its head office located at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. BGCI’s membership and larger network has grown consistently over the years, and now includes more than...
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Study Names Top Cities Emitting Light that Endangers Migratory Birds
An estimated 600 million birds die from building collisions every year in the U.S., and research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology offers one explanation for it.A team led by Kyle Horton, a Rose postdoctoral fellow at the lab, ranked metropolitan areas where, due to a combination of light pollution and geography, birds are...
