Photo by Sachin.
December 17, 2012 Weather: Cloudy, High of 46 Degrees.
Notices:
Tom Cruise and David Chase come to town tonight top promote their new movies. That and other events are on our calendar. Update: Cruise event “postponed out of respect for the people of Newtown, CT. Refund info to follow: https://ow.ly/gaKmD.”
If you can’t attend the Isaiah Sheffer memorial celebration today, watch it live-streamed on the Internet.
The New-York Historical Society has opened a photo of exhibit on New York landmarks.
News:
Holy Name of Jesus on West 97th Street and St. Gregory the Great on West 90th Street could be closed after this school year because of declining enrollment. “Holy Name of Jesus, which charges $4,000 per year, had 230 students this year, compared to 600 nine years ago, according to Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese.”(DNAinfo)
Snapple President Jack Belsito just put his four-story townhouse on 88th Street the market for nearly triple what he paid for it in 2002. The listing for the four-bedroom four-bath is here. (Curbed)
Class sizes at public schools are up across the city, to an average of 26.7 kids per class. (DNAinfo)
The community board is considering a proposal to take away parking spaces on Central Park West around 106th Street so people can get a better view of the Stranger’s Gate entrance to Central Park. (Columbia Spectator)
Another Catholic school closes and another piece of property will go on the block for development no doubt. The church should be focusing on its course mission but instead spends its money and by the way our taxpayer money on politics. It is time for religious tax exemptions and other undeserved privileges to be taken away.
the w 90th st & the 96th st site will make for fine luxury housing. can hardly wait for them to be built and bring more “good” people to the nabe.