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
Newseum The Newseum has put on display the most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever gathered. It includes every Pulitzer Prize winning entry since 1942. Many of the photographers are interviewed in a documentary film, providing context for the pictures and insight into their craft. Some photographs included are: "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima", "Burst of Joy" (the joyful reunion of a returning prisoner of war and his family), a firefighter cradling a mortally-injured infant after the Oklahoma City bombing. Visitors can access a database of 300 video clips, 400 audio clips and 1,000 prize photos. The gallery underwent