Rescuing an Off Off Broadway Theater With a Storied Past
Preservationists hope to save the 13th Street Repertory Company building, with a little help from the Underground Railroad.
New research shows that the 1840s rowhouse at 50 West 13th Street was owned by Jacob Day, an abolitionist businessman, who was one of the wealthiest Black residents of 19th-century New York City.Credit.Katherine Marks for The New York Times
March 12, 2021
When Edith O’Hara, the mother hen and indefatigable leader of the eclectic 13th Street Repertory Company for nearly half a century, died last fall at age 103, the future became decidedly shaky for one of Off Off Broadway’s longest-operating stages.
As a child, Kamala Harris lived with her mother and sister in this Bancroft Way home in West Berkeley. Photo: Steven Finacom
Update, March 9, 5 p.m.: City Councilmember Kate Harrison will pull her proposed resolution to “change” Berkeley law to enable the landmarking of Kamala Harris’ childhood home.
After more discussion with staff, Harrison said she has more clarity about the circumstances in which a person’s home can be considered for landmark status. She had based her resolution on a reading of a recent staff report concerning landmarking 1915 Berryman St., the former home of William Payson. The staff report recommended denying the landmarking of Payson’s former home, in part, because he was not living in the house when he helped found Berkeley’s First Unitarian Church, the act he is best known for. Harrison said she was concerned that staff analysis would impose impediments on landmarking Harris’ house because she was only a child when she lived there and rose to
Former President Donald Trump was set to fulfill his civic duty as a private citizen and vote in the town of Palm Beach’s municipal election on Tuesday.
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Ted Cooney wins Group 1 Town Council seat
The Palm Beach native captured 83 percent of the vote to defeat small business owner Candace Rojas for the Group 1 seat.
Palm Beach Daily News
A Palm Beach native who has served the town for more than a decade on its landmarks and architectural boards will take on a new role following Tuesday s general election.
Cooney won with 2,369 votes to Rojas 547 votes. Turnout was 33.2% of the town’s 8,764 registered voters. I m honored at the trust the residents have placed in me. I look forward to continuing to serve the community in this new role, he told the Daily News Tuesday night after the results were in.