The IBM Building at 590 Madison Ave. has one of the finest amenities in the city: A 8,200 square-foot park-like atrium with a 65-foot high glass ceiling, with dozens of chairs and tables available to everyone. “A tree-filled conservatory and public living room rolled into one,” is how the space... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-11-27 18:07:17 UTC ]
More than 30 years ago Annika Pergament drove up the coast, starting in Florida, in search of her first journalism job after graduate school—her trunk filled with tapes of herself as a news anchor. She landed a gig in television news just several hundred miles later."I hit every news station on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-04-23 20:44:42 UTC ]
The owner and operator of the Mysterious Bookshop in Lower Manhattan, the oldest bookstore in the U.S. specializing in mysteries and thrillers, said his duties running Mysterious Press don’t leave him with enough time to interact with customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
Shamrock Capital, the parent company of Adweek, has acquired New York-based Bayard Advertising, which specializes in recruitment marketing. Founded in 1923, on Bayard Street in Lower Manhattan, Bayard offers a suite of services, including branding, creative, digital media strategy, programmatic... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2021-01-27 23:07:08 UTC ]
To celebrate the New York Public Library turning 125(!), the Hudson Park branch asked New York City-based artist Nick Golebiewski to paint the libraries of lower Manhattan. (My personal favorite? The Jefferson Market Library, which is just a short walk from our office. I miss it so!) If you too... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-11 17:37:54 UTC ]
This year's National Book Awards ceremony, which is typically a glittery black-tie ball at Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan, will instead be a virtual event, hosted online on November 18. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
On November 12, at the Pen Parentis Literary Salon in Lower Manhattan, I hear author Jimin Han say something I’ve never heard a writer admit before. “I didn’t really commit to being a writer until I had children,” Han says to a room of 20 or so writers, all of whom are parents. There is […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-06 09:47:14 UTC ]
At the 70th National Book Awards, held again this year at Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, LeVar Burton presided over a smoothly run evening attended by a typically ebullient and dapper publishing industry crowd. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
New York City-based bookseller Shakespeare & Co. will open a store in Brookfield Place, a retail mall in lower Manhattan, in January 2020. There, it plans to host large scale author events. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daisy Khan, the global activist for Muslim women who helped establish an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, offers the ‘nuances of Islam’ in her spiritual memoir. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 68th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, politics were again front and center in the publishing world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Publishers has signed a 20-year lease at 120 Broadway, called the "Equitable Building," in lower Manhattan, and will leave Chelsea's iconic Flatiron Building. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Wednesday evening, November 16, five finalists for the Young People's Literature prize headed to Cipriani Wall Street in lower Manhattan for the 67th National Book Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the 67th National Book Awards, held at Cipriani New York in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday night, the junction where politics and publishing meet was in the spotlight from the start. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2014 National Book Awards were presented Wednesday evening at a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Matthew White, a self-described atrocitologist, at the African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]