Month: April 2017

Flip This Affordable Housing Unit

A new report by the City’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) indicates that Battery Park City and the Financial District have the highest turnover of tenants in rent-stabilized apartment units of any community in the five boroughs, when tallying buildings built after 1974. The IBO, a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information about the government...

April 11

1713 – Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain – English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty 1775 – The last conviction for witchcraft in Germany takes place. It was on this date, April 11, 1775, that the sentence of death for witchcraft was handed down in Germany. Some records indicate that...
Witchcraft

Roll Reversal

The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) wants to change the direction of traffic on a one-way street in Tribeca. Jay Street, which runs for one block between Greenwich and Hudson Streets (two blocks, if you count the intersection with Staple Street, an alley that seems to function mainly as a location for film and television...
Tribeca's Jay Street, looking eastbound from Greenwich Street (toward Hudson Street) is the focus of a proposal to create a new westbound one-way street.

April 10

1710 – The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain 1790 – Robert Gray is first American to circumnavigate the Earth 1841 – New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley 1849 – Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400 1864 – Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of...
Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format 8x10-inch camera.

Striking a Chord

High up in the skyscraper known as 28 Liberty, (formerly Chase Manhattan Plaza), 50 artists are toiling away, each painting, and creating art on a unique canvas of ebony and ivory. Their 50 different ideas will inspire, amuse and bring pleasure to New Yorkers this summer when these pianos are placed outdoors around the five...
Sing for Hope artists

Remix Gets Nixed

Tribeca’s nightlife is a tad less tawdry after a series of recent enforcement actions directed at Remix, a Park Place bar that billed itself as a dance club, but was actually, according to police, operating as an adult entertainment venue. Although Remix has a years-long history of close brushes with the law, and calls by...