Toxic Mould Stated to Sicken Household in UWS Luxurious Constructing; NYT Fashion Photographer’s Archives Headed for NY Historical; UWS School Mourns Late Actor; Columbia’s Appearing President Defends Settlement with Feds

Monday, July 28

Mostly sunny, excessive 92.

More of the identical tomorrow and Wednesday, with cooler temperatures anticipated Thursday and Friday. A thunderstorm is within the forecast for Thursday.

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Manhattan Community Board 7 is conducting a survey to get a greater understanding of what residents and different neighborhood stakeholders (akin to elected officers) imagine the aim of the board is/ought to be. To take part, click on — HERE.

Rats have been overrunning the newly planted Broadway medians and avenue tree beds this summer time, and City Councilmember Gale Brewer, who represents District 6, is urging residents to report any proof of infestation — akin to burrows, tunnels, or broken foliage — by submitting a 311 report through the hyperlink under. The complaints will go on to the NYC Parks Department, which is hiring extra exterminators as a part of a $900,000/yr rat-fighting initiative. After making a report, residents are requested to name Brewer’s workplace (212-873-0282) with the file quantity, to allow them to coordinate with the Parks Department and different businesses on a plan of motion. To report rats, click on — HERE.

UWS News
By Laura Muha

A former Upper West Side couple has filed go well with in opposition to the homeowners and administration of the posh constructing they lived in, claiming that failure to correctly repair a leak allowed poisonous mould to unfold all through their condominium and left them with a number of well being issues, together with vertigo, allergy symptoms, fatigue, and a rash that left their toddler son crying in ache.

In a grievance filed final month in State Supreme Court, Jae Donnelly stated the primary proof of mould was found in January 2024 when staff minimize away a bit of wall to repair a leak within the condominium, positioned within the Sessanta high-rise at 229 West sixtieth Street. Donnelly stated he reported his considerations to administration, however they didn’t make repairs that might have stopped the spores from spreading, the New York Post reported.

It wasn’t till nearly a yr later, when staff returned to repair one other leak, that they pulled the sofa away from the wall and located “mold bubbling away on the surface of the wall and all down the back of the couch,” stated Donnelly, a British-born photographer. When staff eliminated a big part of sheet rock, they found the mould had unfold all through the partitions and flooring of the condominium; it was even detected within the kitchen cupboards the place the household stored their cookware.

Donnelly stated that by then, he, his spouse and their two younger kids, now ages 10 and a couple of, had begun affected by unexplained well being points. Their daughter started lacking college attributable to excessive fatigue, and their son developed painful pus-filled bumps on his buttocks. Tests confirmed they’d excessive ranges of mycotoxins (poisonous compounds naturally produced by sure sorts of molds) of their blood.

The constructing homeowners and administration “were negligent and reckless causing the Plaintiffs to sustain serious personal injuries as a result of prolonged exposure to mold,” the lawsuit alleges.

Because of the mould, the household moved out of the constructing and again to Donnelly’s native Britain earlier this yr.

Align Management didn’t reply to the Post’s request for remark.

Read the total story — HERE.

Bill Cunningham, the late vogue photographer who spent many years documenting town’s altering fashions for The New York Times, as soon as half-jokingly threatened to burn the tens of hundreds of photographs in his archive, as a result of they’re not all flattering and he didn’t need them to fall into the unsuitable palms.

Fortunately for future generations of researchers and students, the photographs and negatives, together with different memorabilia, have as an alternative discovered a everlasting dwelling at The New York Historical, the place they are going to be housed within the new Tang Wing for American Democracy, which is scheduled to open subsequent yr. As a prelude to its opening, the museum will exhibit Cunningham’s “Evening Hours” — his well-liked Times pictures documenting town’s charitable galas and philanthropic occasions — later this yr.

“Bill turned fashion into cultural anthropology,” Louise Mirrer, president of The New York Historical, instructed the Times. “He found the pulse of the city in every nook and cranny, photographing the glitzy, the wealthy, the crème de la crème, and making stops on his bicycle along the way to photograph other things that intrigued him, the grunge scene or a party downtown.”

Cunningham, who died at 87 in 2016, spent many years biking across the metropolis in his signature blue jacket, documenting all kinds of topics: men in dress shoes attempting to navigate post-snowfall slush; NYC Marathon fashions;  Fashion-Week galas. “The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will,” Cunningham stated in a 2010 documentary about his life and work, “Bill Cunningham New York.”

Cunningham’s niece, Patricia Simonson, who oversees his property, instructed the Times that The New York Historical was an acceptable place to deal with her uncle’s assortment, as a result of it’s positioned “right on Central Park West in Manhattan, where much of his work took place.”

Read the total story – HERE.

The late actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, recognized for his position in “The Cosby Show,” is being remembered by the top of his UWS highschool as “kind and encouraging, deep in his thinking, expansive in his reasoning, and a true friend to all.”

Warner, a 1988 graduate of the Professional Children’s School at 132 West sixtieth Street, drowned final week whereas vacationing along with his household in Costa Rica.

“The entire PCS community is deeply saddened regarding the tragic passing of our beloved alumnus, Malcolm-Jamal Warner,” James Dawson, Ph.D., instructed FOX 5 NY. Dawson additionally instructed ABC NY that Warner had been planning to attend a college reunion this fall. “Malcolm touched so many lives, and I think that many people are going to be deeply impacted,” he stated.

Read/watch the total story — HERE and HERE.

In her first interview since a take care of the Trump administration was introduced final week, Columbia University’s appearing president defended the settlement, which restores tons of of tens of millions of federal {dollars} in analysis funding in return for a collection of concessions by the college.

“I think we were able to craft an agreement that is in line with our values and doesn’t cross any of the red lines we articulated,” Claire Shipman instructed the Columbia Spectator.

Under the phrases of the settlement, Columbia admits no wrongdoing and cedes no say in hiring, admissions choices, or educational speech. However, the college can pay a positive of greater than $200 million to settle civil rights claims alleging that it failed to guard Jewish college students from harassment within the wake of the continuing Gaza warfare. The settlement additionally consists of almost 50 different necessities, together with the elimination of race, colour, intercourse, or nationwide origin as issues in hiring and admissions; and extra cautious vetting of potential worldwide college students.

In addition, the college should periodically flip over knowledge to an unbiased monitor, together with admissions knowledge that breaks down race, colour, GPA, and efficiency on standardized exams for each admitted and rejected college students. Critics say this represents a chilling intrusion of the federal government into the operations of a non-public college, and that it has implications for faculties throughout the nation.

But the Spectator quoted Shipman as saying “there was gonna have to be some sort of compliance mechanism,” and that the opposite various — a consent decree — would have been worse as a result of it could have concerned court docket supervision, versus an unbiased monitor whom the college helped to pick out.

Read the total story — HERE.

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