Goodbye Music, Hello Fro-Yo Bleecker Bob’s record store is legendary to New York and music fanatics worldwide. For decades, vinyl enthusiasts made pilgrimages to the West Village landmark to trade, buy, and above all, learn about music. Jimmy Page once tended the register, and artists like David Bowie, Debbie Harry and The New York Dolls were regulars. Throughout its 45-year [...]
Reporter’s Notebook: Uniting the Family Tree on the Web Three years ago, I got a Facebook friend request from a woman I did not know: Diamond Jackson. We did not have any mutual friends, but I accepted the request anyway. A month later, she sent me a message: she and I, Diamond wrote, have the same father. How could someone [...]
Activism Takes a Digital Turn Outside a Chelsea pet shop, middle schoolers picketed against the store’s alleged use of puppy mills. Most pedestrians ignored them, but not Cecily McMillan. Standing outside a neighboring restaurant with a cigarette in her hand, McMillan — an Occupy Wall Street activist and New School for Social Research alumnus — touts the protesters’ willingness to [...]
For the Homeland, Students Put Lives on Hold As the mounting tensions between North and South Korea continue to dominate the front pages of newspapers, for most students at The New School, the reports from a far-off land are just another headline. Yet for the 558 South Korean nationals who attend the University – the school’s largest international population – [...]
The New School’s Plan for Campus Unification For decades, New School students have complained of the hurdles of taking classes offered across the university’s seven divisions. With classrooms and offices scattered across Manhattan, in buildings in the West Village, the Garment District, and the Upper West Side, the university has famously lacked a traditional campus. At present, students at two [...]
Thirteen years ago, when Eugene Lang College student Cecilia Frescas was six years old, her mother led her brood of six children across the border to the United States from their native Mexico. The move was a risky and desperate attempt to give the children a better life, after the family’s father had been murdered two years earlier. Today, Cecilia [...]
Borough Growth Not Gentrification as Usual The shine of glass-windowed high-rises and big retail has yet to distract most Queens residents from neighborhood storefronts. In Astoria, a Greek butcher shares a laugh with a customer as he hangs a pig carcass in his shop window. In Corona, two Russian mechanics, hands covered in motor oil, argue over the costs of used leather [...]
Start-ups Give New York New Tech Title The neighborhood is just east of the Hudson, right below Hell’s Kitchen, the only place in Manhattan where people remember the names of piers. Bikes race taxis down the West Side Highway while high-rise employees work above, scanning the New Jersey skyline from their windows. Most call this place Chelsea. The believers call [...]
Restoring New York’s Bond to the Sea It is three in the morning. You are in the Bronx, and it hits you: the smell of the sea, diesel and, above all, fish. You enter the warehouse and brine, salt and sweat fills the air. Next come the sound of the men: shouting expletives, spitting and laughing. Squeaks of boots, the [...]
An Assessment of Faculty Satisfaction at The New School A few months before the start of the Fall 2012 semester, part-time Eugene Lang writing professor Jennifer Baumgardner received an unexpected email from the administration. According to Baumgardner, she was not only informed that her class had been cancelled, but also that her contract at The New School would not be [...]
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