Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out what’s next for the Irish Arts Center in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. We’ll also look at how a Democratic has positioned herself in hopes of flipping a House seat in the lower Hudson Valley.

When Aidan Connolly became the executive director of the Irish Arts Center in 2007, it had one building in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan, a staff of four people and an annual budget of $690,000.

Now the center has two buildings and a full-time payroll of 26, with an annual budget of $8.7 million. It has lined up $40 million for a makeover of that first building on West 51st Street, which it has occupied since the 1970s. And Connolly has decided that it’s the moment to figure out the next chapter for himself.

With the top-to-bottom renovation of the West 51st Street building scheduled to begin early next year, he plans to step down as executive director in mid-2027. He will work as an adviser to the board, dividing his time between the center and the University of Galway, where he will be a visiting scholar, teaching and “distilling lessons” from the last 20 years in what will amount to an autobiographical instruction manual for small- to medium-size nonprofits.

“I’ve been preparing myself for the idea that there would be a finish line,” he said, calling his time at the center “an opportunity to create something that embraced the old and the new” and was “welcoming for people of all backgrounds.”