Month: March 2016

Letters to the Editor

Dear Congressman Nadler, Once more you vividly show with words and deeds you are a true people’s representative in your positions on all the crucial issues facing US citizens as well as your district in which I am located. I constantly admire your minority fight to slow the destruction of our system of democratic capitalism...

Oratorio About an Odd Couple

An issue that may help determine the outcome of this fall’s presidential election will be interpreted in song and music tonight, when the Lower Manhattan-based Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra (KCO) premieres, “Supreme Justice: The Battle for Gay Rights,” a new work for soprano, tenor, vocal ensemble and orchestra, which chronicles the struggle for marriage equality in...
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra performs "Supreme Justice: The Battle for Gay Rights" at a private recital in February. The work will have its public premiere tonight at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts.

City Taps Liberty Ferry Operator for Five-Borough Service

New York will soon be getting a city-wide network of ferries that cost no more than a subway ride, but the service will be provided by an out-of-town vendor that will likely sink the local competition, City officials announced Wednesday. During a press conference yesterday, New York Water Taxi boats floated up to Pier 11,...
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Pier 15 awarded Hornblower Cruises of San Francisco the contract to operate city-wide ferry system to launch in summer of 2017.

Today in History

 Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston. 1791 – First US internal revenue act, which taxed distilled spirits and carriages. 1803 – First impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins. He was officially the first judge to be impeached in 1804 on the grounds of drunkenness and unlawful rulings. 1845 – Florida became the 27th U.S. state....
Camel Corps - The Civil War proved to be the downfall for these mail carrying animals, as the experiment was interfered with and eventually discontinued because of it.

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: The BroadsheetDAILY article by Matthew Fenton on the contract between AlliedBarton and the Battery Park City Authority for the provision of security services throughout the Battery Park City community misstates several key facts about the services the Authority receives in exchange for the monies paid pursuant to the contract. Let us begin by enumerating...

Downtown Alliance Tells Security Personnel to Take a Hike

The Downtown Alliance, a nonprofit organization that strives to improve quality of life in Lower Manhattan, is boosting the pay for its uniformed security officers (and other employees) to a minimum of $15 per hour. This comes at a moment when another Lower Manhattan institution, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has effectively slashed compensation...