(Editor’s Note: This is the second in an occasional series that will explore questions and answers of City-wide significance raised at Senator Daniel Squadron’s recent Community Town Hall meeting. This installment focuses on the issue of housing affordability.) At the November 15 Community Town Hall meeting hosted by State Senator Daniel Squadron, a surprising number...
Gabrielle Sasson: "My husband and I both work in education. We're middle class. We live and work in Tribeca. But we're being forced out of our home. We're going to have to leave Tribeca for financial reasons. We can't afford to live here anymore."
1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare’s play Othello. 1813 – Premiere of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States’ oldest think tanks, is founded through...
The New American Youth Ballet, which has been performing and offering ballet classes in Lower Manhattan for 15 years under the direction of Elizabeth Flores will be presenting the Nutcracker Holiday Show at the Barnes & Noble Tribeca location at 97 Warren St, on Saturday December 10th at 4pm. Founder Elizabeth Flores recalled that “We...
Robert Douglass, who helped to spark and lead Lower Manhattan’s continuing resurgence as a residential community and newly vibrant business district, died Tuesday from complications related to Parkinson’s Disease. He was 85 years old. Less than 24 hours later, the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) adopted a resolution urging that the new...
Robert Douglass (right), shown at a 2015 award ceremony with Downtown Alliance president Jessica Lappin and Battery Park City Authority founder Charles Urstadt.
43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated. 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die. 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. 1930...
The USS Cassin, a destroyer, has capsized against the USS Downes, another destroye, in a Pearl Harbor drydock. The USS Pennsylvania is astern, occupying the rest of the dry dock.
“It’s a home run,” Robert Serpico, the retiring vice president and chief financial officer of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) says, looking out the window of his office in Brookfield Place. “The mix of residential and retail and commercial development, with one-third of the land set aside for parks and public space, plus museums...
Battery Park City Authority vice president and chief financial officer Robert Serpico: "I always knew the community had a bright future, but I could not have dreamed that it would be this positive. I feel privileged to have had a seat at this table for 30 years and to have been able to help contribute to what's out there now."
