Michael Oreskes
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1 month ago |
otdowntown.com | Michael Oreskes
Governor Hochul pulled the rug out from under Amtrak's hope to double the capacity of Penn Station by tearing down the block immediately south of the present station. "I'm not going to destroy a neighborhood," the Governor said. She specifically rejected the demolition of block 780, the tax designation for the block between seventh and eighth avenues south of 31st street.
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1 month ago |
otdowntown.com | Michael Oreskes
I still remember the chill I felt watching Dr. Demetre Daskalakis in that video. "It's already here," he was saying, like the scientist in a sci-fi film warning that the alien invasion was underway. It was the 10th of March, 2020. The Novel Coronavirus had been spreading since some time late the year before, first in China and, by then, in Italy. Yet here in New York City, where both Dr. Daskalakis and I lived and worked, life had been continuing pretty much as always.
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1 month ago |
otdowntown.com | Michael Oreskes
The time has come to make Penn Station great again. That not particularly subtle message to Donald J. Trump-who routinely boasts that he was a great New York deal-maker before becoming President-was sent to Washington by a high-powered advocacy group called the Grand Penn Community Alliance, a grassroots organization underwritten by Trump allies who strongly support a revival of classical architecture.
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2 months ago |
otdowntown.com | Michael Oreskes
It is unlikely that James Madison, when he was writing the Federalist Papers for publication in New York in 1788, contemplated the need for congestion pricing in lower Manhattan, which at the time had a population of around 30,000 and extended only as far north as present day Broome street. But a President who would declare himself King? That was right in Madison's wheelhouse.
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Jun 28, 2024 |
airmail.news | Michael Oreskes
A river runs through the personal saga of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That river is the Hudson, or, in the language of the Indigenous Lenape, Shatemuc—the river that runs both ways with the tide. Kennedy portrays himself as a savior of the precious estuary. This narrative is central to his self-portrait, of a man who redeemed himself by overcoming his addiction and protecting and resurrecting the environment. But those who interacted with him on the banks of the Hudson say the story runs both ways, too.
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