The Everything Every Night Festival. This month, Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center is hosting The Crown Point Festival, a newly revamped three weeks of music, film and theatre with a unique twist: Each evening is carefully curated to bring out the best in all three forms. “We put a lot of thought into why this play should follow this film and then be followed by this band,” says Executive Director Kelly Markus. “We don’t try to create a throughline but we definitely want the audience to feel like they’re on an emotional journey through the work regardless of genre.” (Grand Street News)

The M23 gets the Pokey. The Straphangers Campaign and Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group for subway and bus riders, gave the sixth annual Pokey Award to New York City bus M23, a cross-town bus, which runs along 23rd Street between Peter Cooper Village and Chelsea Piers, for its average speed of 4 miles per hour at noon during a weekday. A woman who has been riding this bus for some 10 years said: “In the middle of the day you have to wait 10 minutes. It’s faster to walk at times.” But you know something—at least they have a cross-town bus. The MTA took away our M8 years ago and gave us zilch in return. So our wait time is around twenty years… (eFluxMedia)

A Synagogue Grows on Stanton. Jonathan Shore, a short and wiry thirty-something with short, black curls and happy, dark brown eyes, looks and sounds like the archetypical Jewish doctor your mom wanted you to bring home some day. The Stanton Street Shul was built in 1913 and from the looks of it probably has never undergone a major renovation. Shore mentions that the shul records at the Yivo Institute describe a significant plumbing job back in the 1950s. The job was so big, they added a $25 assessment per member, when the annual membership was two dollars. Incidentally, Mr. Benny Sauerhaft, our current president, was the treasurer at the time. (Grand Street News)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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