BY COLIN MIXSON New York's highest court will finally provide clarity on a contentious legal debate that's pitted Downtown renters against their landlords, who for decades have reaped millions in tax breaks while refusing to provide the regulated rents the program was meant to foster, tenants claim. (downtownexpress.com)
Based on the biography «Max Perkins: Editor of Genius» by A. SCOTT BERG, Genius stars COLIN FIRTH as Perkins, JUDE LAW as Wolfe, NICOLE KIDMAN as Aline Bernstein, a costume designer sharing a tumultuous relationship with Wolfe, LAURA LINNEY as Louise Perkins, Max's wife and a talented playwright, GUY PEARCE as F. Scott Fitzgerald and DOMINIC WEST as Ernest Hemingway. (reelnewsdaily.com)
BY COLIN MIXSON Teachers at Downtown's Peck Slip School are asking for city funding to install permanent safety barriers to protect kids on its daily «play street,» where students are currently protected by the teachers» own strategically parked cars at either end of the block. (downtownexpress.com)