News & Updates

ABC Announces World’s First Bird-Friendly Arena

The Milwaukee Bucks have achieved a first with their new arena: Fiserv Forum will be the world's first bird-friendly sports and entertainment arena, upon completion of the Bucks' application for LEED Silver® certification. This is a significant victory for bird conservation because up to 1 billion birds die annually after colliding with glass in the...

October 31, 2018
E-Flux - The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art presents a new archival exhibition of 50 years of undergraduate architectural thesis projects by students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture.
Archive and Artifact: The Virtual and the Physical

Discovered by chance by a farmer in rural Normandy while plowing his field, the Berthouville Treasure is the largest and best-preserved hoard of silver from the Ancient World. For its presentation at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Berthouville Treasure will be joined by approximately seventy-five other luxury objects from the...

‘Devotion and Decadence’ Exhibition Opens at ISAW
Shelby White was celebrated by the Alliance and Brooklyn community at their festive annual Gala.
2018 Prospect Park Alliance Gala Honored Shelby White & the Leon Levy Foundation

Crain's New York - In addition to its partners ‘New York' magazine and Lenfest Institute for Journalism, six foundations have contributed $8.5 million.  Months after Crain's predicted that nonprofits "could be the future of New York journalism," New York magazine and its partners announced the creation of...

Local news nonprofit The City lays out funding plans
The New York Times - With the once robust metropolitan news coverage in New York dwindling, a new nonprofit website called The City is teaming up with New York magazine in hopes of replacing some of that lost local accountability and investigative journalism. The City will be led by Jere Hester, a lifelong Brooklynite and...
Website Revs Up, With New York Magazine’s Help, to Cover More Local News

There is about to be a new journalism institution in town, as reported by The New York Times, with New York Magazine as a proud partner providing tech, editorial, design, and distribution support. The digital organization will be called The City (@TheCityNY), and its mandate will be to fill the gap created by the closing and...

New York Magazine Partners With The City, a Nonprofit Digital News Start-up
The New York Times - Every Sept. 11, beams of light rise more than four miles into the night sky from the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan to honor the nearly 3,000 lives lost in America’s most devastating terrorist attacks. The glowing columns elegantly trace the outlines of...
The Deadly Lure of City Lights -Migrating birds can become disoriented as they fly at night but the 9/11 Tribute in Light has come up with a solution

The Times of Israel - An additional 1,700-year-old mosaic floor was recently discovered in excavations of the villa of a wealthy merchant in Lod. This new colorful snapshot of sumptuous Roman life was uncovered during preparations for a museum to house the original, massive Lod mosaic, which was discovered under a garbage dump in...

While building museum to house stunning Lod mosaic, researchers unearth another
This summer’s interns in terrestrial natural history at the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve in Eleuthera, Bahamas participated in a two-week scientific and cultural exchange with New York’s Natural Areas Conservancy (NAC).  Site visits to Eleuthera and New York allowed each group the chance to learn about natural resource management and scientific research methods in...
When North Meets South: Bahamas/New York Intern Collaboration