Manhattan Borough President Pledges $50 Million to NYC Arts Orgs

Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Manhattan’s borough president, announced on Tuesday that all $50 million of his office’s annual discretionary budget would be going towards NYC arts-centric cultural programming and renovation projects. Hoylman-Sigal told the New York Times that he had decided to allocate the budget this way, rather than divide it up between sectors as in years […]

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