| Tine Lundsfryd: Recent Paintings
Lori Bookstein Fine Art presents Tine Lundsfryd: Recent Paintings, on view through May 12th, 2007. The 13 square or near-square canvases comprise her second solo show at the gallery, and continue her exploration of abstract geometric form using unexpected palettes. After first laying down a graphite grid onto the surface, the artist uses its vertical, horizontal and diagonal axes as an armature from which to build up more complex forms. Variously-shaped triangles and quadrangles, and the eight-pointed star, remain her building blocks, but she has introduced the motifs of pinwheels and puzzle-like pieces to her most recent work. Both playful and mathematical, Lundsfryd's patterning derives its structures from sources high and low, religious and secular. On a trip to her native Denmark last year, the artist encountered an eternity symbol in an 12th century church, whose intersecting circles she incorporated into her canvases.
Brooklyn Court Transforms into Two High Schools
The renovation of the 140,000-square-foot building will be complete for the start of the 2008-2009 school year. by Meaghan O'Neill Interior Design ยท April 19, 2007 Construction is underway on architecture and planning firm Gran Kriegel Associates' latest project, a $56 million adaptive reuse conversion that will turn a former downtown Brooklyn courthouse into two 500-seat high schools. The project, overseen by the New York City School Construction Authority with M.A. Angeliades as the general contractor, is expected to be complete for the start of the 2008-2009 school year. The 140,000-square-foot building, which dates to 1951, was originally built around a central core. Its interior will be completely gutted and reconfigured to accommodate the new schools, which include the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice and the Urban Assembly School of Math and Science for Young Women.
City Tech Takes Walking Tours To Historic Heights
According to New York City College of Technology's enrollment figures for 2005, one out of every three students at their school comes from East Flatbush/Crown Heights, Sunset Park, Jackson Heights, Flushing or Harlem.
Given that statistic, a recent grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offered faculty members a unique opportunity to study the roots of their student body. So last Friday, 15 City Tech school officials - led by author and Municipal Art Society consultant Francis Morrone - descended on Crown Heights to engage in exactly that type of in-depth examination.
Morrone, who also leads tours for the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, guided school officials to a list of sites including Eastern Parkway, Grant Square, the former Ebbets Field, and the mansions on St.
ACTING BOSS OF THE GENOVESE ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY SENTENCED TO 18 ...
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Genovese Organized Crime Family Acting Boss and Capo MATTHEW IANNIELLO, a/k/a Matty the Horse, was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to 18 months in prison for using his status in the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (LCN) to collect unlawful labor payments from union officials of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union (Local 1181") and to obstruct a grand jury investigation into the illicit relationship between Local 1181 and the Genovese Organized Crime Family. .
Tenants are united under one roof to fight against eviction
The relentless gentrification of the East Village and Lower East Side sparked a bit of popular revolt this past weekend.
On Saturday, nearly 400 people rallied outside 47 E. Third St., where awealthy couple is seeking to turn the entire rent-stabilized building into their own private mansion.
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