On April 10, 2009, nearly 100 people stood at the street corners around the 65 Fifth Ave. building, watching a young man on the roof overlooking 13th Street. He shouted through a crackling megaphone to demand that President Bob Kerrey resign and that everyone stop participating in global capitalism. Police massed below in columns, like Roman soldiers. By the end [...]
A giant hole sits on Fifth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets. Cranes tower over the tall grey walls like giant yellow fingers scratching at the earth. Eventually a 16-story, 354,000-square-foot brass-and-glass building will grow out of the dusty pit. At $350 million it will be the largest and the costliest construction project in The New School’s 91-year history. And [...]
In December 2003, Tom Daschle, the then-Senate Majority Leader, named his longtime colleague Bob Kerrey to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, commonly referred to as the 9/11 Commission. Kerrey, the former celebrity senator from Nebraska, managed to stay out of the spotlight since the 2001 revelations that he and his Navy SEAL squad killed unarmed [...]
On May 2, Bob Kerrey somberly recounted his experience of the Vietnam War to a packed audience in Tishman Auditorium. Days before The New York Times and “60 Minutes” broke the story that in 1969, Kerrey and his squad of Navy SEALs killed nearly 13 unarmed civilians in Thanh Phong, a remote Vietnamese hamlet. On that spring day in 2001, hundreds of [...]
On a cold January morning in 2011, wind burst through the doors of the 66 W. 12 St. and scattered leaflets through the air and into the puddles of melted snow on the lobby floor. The water made the bold headline, “Kerrey’s Decade,” bleed into long fingers of purple and black ink, transforming it into something akin to a horror [...]
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