Museum of the City of New York the incoming administration of Michael Bloomberg, which decided to use the Courthouse as the headquarters for the new New York City Department of Education, causing MCNY's then-director Robert R. McDonald to tender his resignation. McDonald was replaced in 2002 by Susan Henshaw Jones, who was at the time the president of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. There was also an attempt to merge the museum with the New-York Historical Society, which did not come to fruition, and the museum was passed over for space at Ground Zero. The Museum's former director, Susan Henshaw Jones, recommitted MCNY to its
City News Bureau of Chicago of the old CNB, and the bureau's last editor. "Sun-Times" management had thought they would be able to create a new, cheaper wire service, staffed with few people. When that venture—called Alliance News—failed, for a while the "Sun-Times" used the part-time help of Medill News Service, staffed by unpaid journalism students from the Medill School of Journalism. The "Sun-Times", however, was barred from receiving the New City News Service wire because of its being in competition with the "Tribune". Though the "Tribune" had been hailed by former City Newsers as a savior of CNB, on December 1, 2005, the "Tribune"