Photo by A Digital Diva via flickr.
February 27, 2012 Weather: Sunny, High of 54 Degrees.
Notices:
We have a full week’s worth of local events up, including a film club, lots of free concerts and an appearance by Dr. Ruth! Check it out!
News:
Two movies set on the Upper West Side — Margaret and Project Nim — were snubbed by Oscar voters this year. And “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” also set in the neighborhood, didn’t win anything.
The Lincoln Square Synagogue’s new building on Amsterdam Avenue near 70th Street has an undulating four-story curtain wall, unlike its previous squat space-age look. “For the first new synagogue built in Manhattan in the last five decades, there is nothing especially synagogue-like about its forms, but then, there was hardly anything of the sort in the older building either.” (The Real Deal)
A look at the (thankfully discarded) 1934 plan to fill the Hudson River and connect the West Side to New Jersey. (Gothamist)
Activists and politicians, including Scott Stringer and Gale Brewer, gathered on the Upper West Side to denounce the use by police of stop-and-frisk tactics, which are predominantly used on Black and Hispanic people. (NY1)
