Month: March 2016

Letters to the Editor

To The Editor, As I walked around in my neighborhood, people were shouting…”No more taxation without representation.”   No, this is not a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party for a television show that is being filmed in Battery Park City.  It is a real issue facing the Battery Park City community, a place that I...

Sometimes, Bigger Really Is Better

Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling on City officials who are planning a new elementary school in the Financial District to expand the project to include more school seats, a middle school, and a full-sized gymnasium. “Once again the Department of Education [DOE] has designed a school with a ‘gymatorium’ plan, which we are all...
CB1 Youth & Education chair Tricia Joyce: "Once again the Department of Education has designed a school with a 'gymatorium,' which we are all vehemently opposed to, in a neighborhood where only three of our nine schools have full-sized gyms."

Eyes to the Sky

Most often as a solitary observer I look up to Earth’s blue atmosphere, radiant with sunlight or, at dawn and dusk, to the brightest stars and planets; after twilight deepens read more …
The Horsehead, Flame and IC434 Nebulae by Terry Hancock, Downunder Observatory

Today in History

1840  Dr. John William Draper takes first photo of the Moon The first ever photo of the moon, taken by John Williams Draper 1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan, Italy 1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers 1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 meters (18,000 feet) without a parachute and lives. That number was surpassed...
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims, "give me liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining Revolutionary war

Flood Risk Dampens Ardor for Lower Manhattan

Decision-makers who consider moving a business to Lower Manhattan are faced with many enticements, and one caveat, says a recent poll of more than 100 commercial property owners, brokers, agents, engineers, accountants and real estate lawyers. The survey, by accounting firm Marks Paneth, indicates that 70 percent of high-level real estate executives agree with developer...

Today in History

37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. 1673 – Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers 1881 – Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden 1891 – Britain is...
William de Kooning died on this day in 1997.