Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'howardsafir'
August 29, 2007
In a city whose mayor has made gun control one of his signature issues, it's no surprise that the number of registered gun owners has gone down. The Post reports that there are now 36,169, versus 38,000 last year. Permits that allow one to wear a gun on a holster (concealed) also dropped to 2,555, which the Sun says is almost 50% less than the 2004 number. Of course, there's now way to estimate illegal......
Continue Reading "Number of NYC Gun Owners Decrease"May 16, 2007
We started the morning with some Giuliani-9/11 news, so here's some end-of-the-day Giuliani-9/11 musings. There's an awesome update to one of our favorite Rudy Giuliani stories - the story, or mystery, of why was the Office of Emergency Management's emergency center placed at 7 World Trade Center. Here's how it goes: Sunday - Giuliani appears on Fox News Sunday. Host Chris Wallace asks him why the city's emergency command center was put in 7 World......
Continue Reading "Giuliani's 9/11 OEM Emergency Center Blame Game"May 10, 2004
The Tribeca Film Festival wound down yesterday, with awards going to Chinese film "Green Hat" for best narrative film and best new narrative filmmaker (Liu Fen Dou), documentaries "Arna's Children" (Israel) and "The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face" (South Africa & Australia) sharing best documentary, and Paulo Sacramento ("The Prisoner of the Iron Bars: Self-Portraits") for best new documentary filmmaker. What's interesting is that last year's narrative winner, Blind Shaft, was released without much......
Continue Reading "Tribeca Film Festival Award Winners"December 12, 2003
The infighting between WTC redesign master planner Daniel Libeskind and tower architect David Childs get nuttier: Apparently, there was some sort of break–in at Childs' offices (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), and Childs' team thinks it was perpetrated by Libeskind staffers. Former police commissioner Howard Safir is investigating, and the Post reports a source as saying, "[Childs' team] wanted to know what happened. They were very angry and they wanted to see what was behind......
Continue Reading "More WTC Drama"
