Hastings NewsLocal news for Hastings, NY continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.To New York Public Library's Astor and Tilden, Add Schwarzman- April 23, 2008 "These organizations and their founders, without whom we would not have this world-famous institution, are mentioned only once on the building's facades, not five times, as is proposed for this new donation." The name will appear five times on the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue: at the base of each of the two center columns leading to the century-old building's main entrance; on a gold plaque on the marble ... via New York Timeshttp://www.topix.net/city/hastings-ny/2008/04/to-new-york-public-librarys-astor-and-tilden... Authors explore Irish-American experience- April 1, 2008 "I found that Steven Foster, the songwriter, was down on the Lower East Side in the Civil War. He had become an alcoholic. He was living on the Bowery, and it was the first time I began to think, 'What if I could try to get inside his head" Authors Peter Quinn and Daniel Cassidy had a charmed introduction. 'After 'Banished Children of Eve' came out,' Quinn says, referring to his first novel, 'I was at a book fair in San Francisco, and I heard this ... via Chicago Tribunehttp://www.topix.net/city/hastings-ny/2008/03/authors-explore-irish-american-experience?fr... |