Bill McCreary Dies at 87; Blazed Trail for Black Journalists on TV
He was hired at what became the Fox flagship station in New York in 1967, when there were few Black faces on the air, and became an Emmy-winning anchor.
The veteran New York television journalist Bill McCreary in 2009.“The news directors suddenly realized, ‘Hey, we don’t have any connections in these Black communities,’” he said of his early days. “There were less than a handful of us on television back then.”Credit.Michael N. Todaro/FilmMagic, via Getty Images
May 11, 2021
Bill McCreary, an Emmy Award-winning reporter who was one of the first Black television journalists in New York, and whose perspective helped fill a noticeable gap in local public affairs reporting, died on April 4 in Brooklyn. He was 87.
Back in the fall of 2016, sales launched for 44 luxury condominium apartments at 242 Broome St. That’s part of the big Essex Crossing development project. Now applications have opened for 11 affordable condo units in the building, which is located at Broome and Ludlow streets. While the market rate condos were priced from $1.2 […]
Time for an Essex Crossing update. After encasing the former Essex Street Market building on the south side of Delancey Street in plywood and scaffolding, workers are beginning to demolish the 1940 single-story structure. A 24-story mixed-use building will eventually rise on this parcel, site 2 of the large development project. Annel Cabrera, community relations […]
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Michael Friedlander, Urban Architect of Offbeat Designs, Dies at 63
He was best known for the Spring Street Salt Shed, a crystalline structure that appears, with a little imagination, to form a coarse grain of salt.
Michael Friedlander in 2007 with a model of what ultimately became the Department of Sanitation building at the corner of 55th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. He worked for the department for 40 years.Credit.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
April 1, 2021
In the 1970s, Michael Friedlander was an architecture student at the Cooper Union, his head bursting with bodacious, unconventional designs. On graduating, he settled for a stopgap job with the City of New York, which had him working on prosaic assignments like drafting blueprints to renovate locker rooms for sanitation workers.