1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson 1471 – War of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New...
Peter Minuit, Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. His surname means 'midnight.'
To the editor: The recent investigation into a multitude of campaign contributions and much more alone should stop this madness. Is there anyone anywhere that can put this on a public ballot for the November election and stop the entire madness? Land give-away and tax breaks to private enterprises (developers) have a sole purpose-make the...
The de Blasio administration plans to give away to real estate developers 2.6 acres of public property in Lower Manhattan that may be worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The public space being privatized consists of arcades, the columned porticos at the ground level of 19 buildings along Water Street, between Whitehall...
A map created by the Department of City Planning, highlighting the buildings where the de Blasio administration proposes to create new retail space by enclosing arcades.
In little more than a year, Lower Manhattan fifth graders and their families will have a new option for middle school. The 75 Morton Street School, slated to welcome its first class of sixth graders in the West Village (four blocks north of Houston Street, between Hudson and Greenwich Streets) in September 2017, will become...
An architect's rendering of the new school planned for 75 Morton Street, in the West Village, which is slated to open in September, 2017, and has been designated as the zoned middle school for Tribeca and Battery Park City.
On Wednesday morning, supporters and critics of the plan to convert to commercial, retail use more than 100,000 square feet of public space in arcades along Water Street gave testimony before the City Council. The Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises opened when chairman Donovan Richards invited City Council member Margaret Chin (whose district includes the...
Le Pain Quotidien plans to open a new location at Gateway Plaza later this year, and hopes to install outdoor seating for dozens of diners on the busy sidewalk on South End Avenue, near the driveway that serves as an entrance to Battery Park City’s largest residential complex. “We hope to have outdoor seating with...
A rendering of Le Pain Quotidian's plan for outdoor seating at its new restaurant, slated to open in Gateway Plaza in August. The area in the upper right is the storefront once occupied by the Cafe Express Deli. The section at lower right in the storefront that once housed the Blooming Nails salon. And the space at lower left is the storefront that was once home to the New Plus newsstand. The right side of this image is the curb along South End Avenue. and the bottom edge of the diagram is the driveway leading into Gateway Plaza.
