Shakespeare in the Parking Lot’s 2010 production of Julius Cesar. Photo by Lee Wexler/Images for Innovation. Ivory Aquino and Hamilton Clancy in Julius Ceasar, 2011.
The Drilling Company’s annual production of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot is moving to the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (CSV). After 20 summers in the municipal parking lot at Ludlow and Broome streets, the quirky theatrical happening was displaced by Essex Crossing, the large development project breaking ground this summer.
This year’s performances will take place in the parking lot at 114 Norfolk St., located behind the local arts center. Hamilton Clancy, the company’s artistic director told the New York Times that he stumbled across the space while walking around the neighborhood in search of a new home. “We’re committed to the Lower East Side, because that’s where the heart of our audience was,” he explained.
Cisco Foundation Commits $100 Million for Climate Projects and Technology
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The Cisco Foundation money will help nonprofits that use technology to promote community carbon reduction, climate resilience, green jobs, and education and activism on climate change.
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Cisco Foundation
$100 million over 10 years to make grants and impact investments to nonprofit groups that are using technology to combat climate change and promote community education, carbon reduction, climate resilience, green jobs, and activism.
American Express
$40 million to the Accion Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit community-development financial institution, to offer loans and other resources to small-business owners in the United States, with a focus on Black entrepreneurs.
Here are all of the renderings released today showing what Essex Crossing, the new Seward Park project, might look like. Keep in mind, architects still need to design the buildings. These images are simply representational. Following the renderings, see a detailed narrative on the housing, retail, open space and community facilities to be built during […]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg came to the Lower East Side this morning to announce that the Seward Park project, delayed for four decades, was finally a “done deal.”
Standing in an abandoned building of the Essex Street Market with some of the city’s biggest developers, community partners and neighborhood activists, he called Essex Crossing (the official name of the project) a “wonderful thing” that will bring “the new housing, jobs and open space Lower East Siders want and need and deserve.”
Word got out yesterday that the residential, commercial and community-oriented complex would be built by L+M Development Partners, BFC Partners, and Taconic Investment Partners. They’re paying the city $180 million for the site and investing a total of $1.1 billion to build the new community at the base of the Williamsburg Bridge over the next decade. Groundbreaking is expected in the spring of 2015; the first buildings are projected to open in the summer of 2018. The architectura
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