West Side Rag
  • TOP NEWS
  • OPEN/CLOSED
  • FOOD
  • SCHOOLS
  • OUTDOORS
  • REAL ESTATE
  • ART & CULTURE
  • POLITICS
  • COLUMNS
  • CRIME
  • HISTORY
  • ABSURDITY
  • ABOUT US
    • OUR STORY
    • CONTRIBUTORS
    • CONTACT
West Side Rag
No Result
View All Result
SUPPORT THE RAG

Search the site

No Result
View All Result
Get WSR FREE in your inbox
SUPPORT THE RAG

Morning Bulletin: Goodbye Time Warner Center, School Nurse Shortage Hits UWS, Dakota Book

December 17, 2018 | 12:20 PM
in NEWS
22


Photo of the Columbus Circle holiday market from the Time Warner Center, by Robyn Roth-Moise.

December 17, 2018 Weather: Cloudy, with a high of 48 degrees.

Notices:
A bar quiz,  a book sale and more local events are on our calendar.

Apply now to join the local community board!

News:
Goodbye Time Warner Center, hello Deutsche Bank Center. “Commercial Observer can first report that the Time Warner Center is going to be officially renamed the Deutsche Bank Center, thanks to the fact that Deutsche Bank has officially leased 1.1 million square feet at the One Columbus Circle complex, taking all the available office space except for the building’s 20th floor.”

There’s a school nurse shortage on the UWS and elsewhere in the city and local leaders are raising the alarm. “If students ‘don’t have access to a trained medical professional, and something happens, we could be looking at a catastrophe,’ said Kimberly Watkins, a parent leader in District 3 on the Upper West Side…Henry Zymeck, principal of the Computer School on the Upper West Side, said his school’s nurse must sometimes walk over to nearby P.S. 87 to give medicine to students when that school has no coverage. He said it makes him nervous to have no nurse on site, and he is supposed to call 911 if a child needs medical help.”

The Dakota on 72nd has been a central location in several books and movies. The latest is a novel set in the last year of John Lennon’s life. “Barbash says he grew up very near the Dakota, ‘and it was always this great, looming, haunted castle. But I wanted to write about people who were neighbors of John Lennon in the year before his assassination, that was the first conceit. And then I discovered that it was really more about this father and son.'”

Awful subway service is now convincing businesses to relocate jobs out of NYC. “In the mind of the chief executive, inconvenience is vanished profit. The delays stemming from the failures of the R train or the incapacitations of suburban rail lines is money gone to the winds.”

Share this article:
SUPPORT THE RAG
guest

guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

22 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Gold0105
Gold0105
6 years ago

Do we seriously have to call it that new name now? Thats so incredibly dumb I can’t take it.

0
Reply
Sue L
Sue L
6 years ago
Reply to  Gold0105

We don’t have to call it ANYTHING–“seriously” or not!–just get off bus or subway (or exit cab) @ Columbus Circle. That advice comes from a UWSider who remembers previous “adjustments”–like the one from the New York Coliseum to Time-Warner some 18 yrs. ago. Same difference!

0
Reply
Roger
Roger
6 years ago

re: Deutsche Bank…..it will always be the Time Warner Center, just like it will always be the 59th St. Bridge and the Triboro Bridge!

0
Reply
AC
AC
6 years ago
Reply to  Roger

@ Roger , , , New York Coliseum!
🙂

0
Reply
Steve
Steve
6 years ago
Reply to  Roger

Don’t forget the NY Central and Pan Am Buildings

0
Reply
Old Timer
Old Timer
6 years ago
Reply to  Roger

And Idlewild Airport

0
Reply
Upperwestsidewally
Upperwestsidewally
6 years ago
Reply to  Roger

I still can’t help myself: The PanAm Building.

0
Reply
J chiverton
J chiverton
6 years ago

Regarding awful subway service. How can our representatives in Albany expect major proposed raises when our subways need work. Without public transportation nyc will be in trouble and not provide Albany with most of the funds supporting the entire state.

0
Reply
Eric
Eric
6 years ago
Reply to  J chiverton

Hmmm … perhaps if the system charged riders what it actually cost to provide the service (well over $4 a ride) it would not be continually operating at a deficit.

0
Reply
Pinalty
Pinalty
6 years ago
Reply to  Eric

Perhaps if they spend money on real work and not on contractors and new displays every year , MTA will have enough money

0
Reply
former teacher
former teacher
6 years ago

About the school nurse shortage…how about using unspent salary dollars temporarily and hire the Visiting Nurse Association to fill in?

0
Reply
B.B.
B.B.
6 years ago
Reply to  former teacher

There isn’t a “shortage” of school or other professional nurses in NYC. Newly licensed nurses and experienced are leaving this area or state to find work elsewhere due to a surplus. This and the city has lost many hospitals in past ten or so years, but nursing schools continue to churn out graduates by the hundreds each year.

What it comes down to is money I shouldn’t wonder. Wages for NYC school nurses are only between $40k-about $55K per; meanwhile hospital nurses *start* at between low $70K to a bit over $91K.

Right now and for the past decade or so the bedside is where professional nurses earn very good money. Many will take whatever jobs they can get (rehab, LTC, nursing homes, schools, etc…) until they can get hired by local hospital. Hence all the turnover referred to by some articles on this subject and in general.

City needs to get its priorities straight. NYD DOE pays their “Director of Diversity and Inclusion” $170K per year, which gives you an idea of this mayor’s agenda.

0
Reply
Mel Stone
Mel Stone
6 years ago

Will always be the Pan Am building on Oark Ave!

0
Reply
Rosamunde
Rosamunde
6 years ago

isn’t this Trump’s favorite non Saudi or Russian bank???

0
Reply
Jen
Jen
6 years ago
Reply to  Rosamunde

And your point is? Politicizing everything?

0
Reply
BillyNYC
BillyNYC
6 years ago

Oh come on…. couldn’t they be a little more creative and come up with a better name then “Deutsche Bank Center”?
They could’ve least gone to the public and ask them !!!!
That is so ridiculous.
To me that will be always the NY Colosseum.

0
Reply
Smithe
Smithe
6 years ago
Reply to  BillyNYC

How about “Current Largest Tenant Center” That way we never have to rename it!

0
Reply
Ethan
Ethan
6 years ago

I still call it the New York Coliseum.

0
Reply
BillyNYC
BillyNYC
6 years ago
Reply to  Ethan

Me too ! Even though I spelt it wrong, haha thanks to the iPhone autospell.

0
Reply
UWS_lifer
UWS_lifer
6 years ago

As long as they never sell the naming rights to Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium I’m good.

0
Reply
Ellie
Ellie
6 years ago

I’m not happy about the Time Warner Building name change!

0
Reply
Leon
Leon
6 years ago

Since the NY Times is now on the outer edge of Times Square should we rename it Disney Square?

0
Reply

YOU MIGHT LIKE...

UWS Concert Ends With Fireflies: Their Benefits Are Profound
NEWS

UWS Concert Ends With Fireflies: Their Benefits Are Profound

July 11, 2025 | 12:27 PM
UWS Weekend: Great Things To Do in the Neighborhood
COLUMNS

UWS Weekend: Great Things To Do In (and Around) the Neighborhood

July 11, 2025 | 8:32 AM
Previous Post

Just in Time for Christmas, Post Office Says it Can Send Packages Again

Next Post

Chase Bank Robbed on Monday Morning

this week's events image
Next Post
Chase Bank Robbed on Monday Morning

Chase Bank Robbed on Monday Morning

Upper West Spa’s Experienced Team Will Take Expert Care of You

Upper West Spa's Experienced Team Will Take Expert Care of You

Openings & Closings: Another Van Leeuwen, Holy Schnitzel, New Thai Spot

Openings & Closings: Another Van Leeuwen, Holy Schnitzel, New Thai Spot

  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US
  • NEWSLETTER
  • WSR MERCH!
  • ADVERTISE
  • EVENTS
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • TERMS OF USE
  • SITE MAP
Site design by RLDGROUP

© 2025 West Side Rag | All rights reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • TOP NEWS
  • THIS WEEK’S EVENTS
  • OPEN/CLOSED
  • FOOD
  • SCHOOLS
  • OUTDOORS
  • REAL ESTATE
  • ART & CULTURE
  • POLITICS
  • COLUMNS
  • CRIME
  • HISTORY
  • ABSURDITY
  • ABOUT
    • OUR STORY
    • CONTRIBUTORS
    • CONTACT US
  • WSR SHOP

© 2025 West Side Rag | All rights reserved.