[media-credit name="Photo by Christopher James " align="aligncenter" width="600"][/media-credit] Jumpstart N.Y.U. is part of a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring every American child enters school prepared to succeed. Jumpstart N.Y.U. brings university students together with Lower East Side preschoolers for a full school year of mentoring and tutoring. BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES  |  NYU:  New York University [...]

COMMUNITY BY KURT CAVANAUGH  |  Few places boast the cultural, historical, and architectural significance of the Lower East Side. The tenement buildings, grand places of worship, school buildings and narrow streets were home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. In 2000, the neighborhood was placed on the [...]

This September marked the beginning of the 15th year of New York University’s America Reads and Counts program. Serving as the nation’s largest university-based public school tutoring program, the university sends nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students to assist in the classrooms of more than 90 New York City public schools each year. The tutors [...]

THE NEW SCHOOL BY DAVID E. VAN ZANDT  |  If higher education faces laser-like scrutiny these days, everything I have observed says it is well deserved. A college degree is still a key determinant of earning capacity and job security. But as residents of Greenwich Village know, the pace of change keeps accelerating and, along [...]

[media-credit id=1 align="alignleft" width="273"][/media-credit] Brad Hoylman COMMUNITY BOARD 2 BY BRAD HOYLMAN  |  “Community boards are only advisory.”  This is ingrained in the minds of probably every one of the 2,950 community board members across the city of New York. But while it is technically true that community boards have no independent authority to order [...]

LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB BY DAVE PENTECOST  |  The Lower Eastside Girls Club is halfway through construction of its new facility on Avenue D in Manhattan. The 30,000-square-foot Center for Community will include a 30-foot digital dome planetarium, a recording studio in a 1958 Airstream trailer and rooms for video, photography, art, design and [...]

COMMUNITY BOARD 3 BY DOMINIC PISCOLATTA and SUSAN STETZER  |  Community Board 3 seems to be busier every year. There seem to be more projects that we are involved in and always more to do. But after years on some projects, we are finally seeing results, such as with the Allen / Pike Sts. malls, [...]

HUDSON RIVER PARK BY MADELYN WILS  |  You’ve biked along the five-mile path. You’ve sunbathed on the green beach. You’ve watched the sun sink down over the Hudson. This is the port where the Titanic was scheduled to dock in 1912, and the Carpathia successfully unloaded survivors. This is Hudson River Park, the largest open [...]

BY CLAIRE MCCARTHY  |  On Oct. 18, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ushered in a new era for the esteemed 152-year-old institution with the inauguration of its 12th president, cognitive neuroscientist Jamshed Bharucha. The ceremony took place in the historic Great Hall and the academic procession crossed from the institution’s [...]