James Barron

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | James Barron

Share Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll take a walk with a Dutch baritone who visits the haunts of great composers when he is in New York. We’ll also look at what could be an opening move against one of President Trump’s adversaries, the New York attorney general.Thomas Oliemans arrived wearing a baseball cap from Zabar’s on the Upper West Side. He said it got him reduced admission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which gives a price break to New York residents.But he’s not one.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | James Barron

Oliemans said that Mahler had looked out the window of his suite on the 11th floor of the Hotel Majestic one day in February 1908 as a funeral procession for a firefighter was passing by. The muffled sound of a drum "moved Mahler so much he used it in his 10th symphony," Oliemans said. (Mahler sketched out Symphony No. 10 two years later but died without orchestrating it.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | James Barron

Placing a preschool or day care center in a building can help sell the development to the community. It also makes the city stronger. Good morning. It's Monday. Today we'll look at why some apartment buildings are replacing amenity spaces like common rooms with child care centers. There's an emerging alliance between real estate, one of New York City's most powerful industries, and child care, one of its most beleaguered sectors. Why?

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | James Barron

Good morning. It's Thursday. We'll look at an image from the early days of photography that was taken by a man usually remembered for something different: inventing the telegraph. We'll also find out why the speaker of the Assembly wants state lawmakers to get paid even when the state budget is late, as it is this year. The man in the dim, muddy image isn't the reason the little portrait could sell for as much as $60,000.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | James Barron

Good morning. It's Tuesday. Today we'll look at how one consequence of climate change, coastal flooding, could make New York's housing shortage worse. We'll also get details on testimony by Columbia University's former interim president, who told a federal task force that she did not remember the specifics of Columbia's report on antisemitism. In a city surrounded by water, communities along the shore are vulnerable to coastal flooding brought on by climate change.