User:Josh karpf/sandbox

Sandbox user bio draft
I am User:Josh Karpf. For twenty-five years I was an in-house managing/production editor at Random House, Facts on File (now Infobase Publishing), Elsevier, and most recently Simon & Schuster. For over three years I have been a freelance editor. I am a Wikipedia-editing noob.

Sandbox City Island revision draft
It served as a school until 1975 and now serves as the City Island Nautical Museum.

It served as a school until 1975. The City Island Nautical Museum opened in 1976, and when New York City sold the building to developer Haim Joseph for $500,000 in the 1980s to develop into condominium apartments, the museum and a community center received a 99-year rent-free lease, and reopened in 1995 after renovations.

A fire allegedly set by vandals on July 13, 2007, damaged the building's façade.