Month: September 2017

Putting the Action in Benefaction

Tonight (Monday, September 25), Lower Manhattan’s homegrown humanitarian organization, Battery Park City Cares, will host a fund raiser at Treadwell Park (301 South Avenue, at the corner of Albany Street), from 6:30 to 9:00 pm, to aid communities devastated by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The organization was founded in the wake of the terrorist attacks...

September 22

904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter. 1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials...
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." Yogi Berra

Delayed Deliverance

A student from Stuyvesant High School, whose name has not been released, fell from the Esplanade into the Hudson River on Wednesday, around 1:00 pm, and was not aided by emergency responders for almost 20 minutes, according to witnesses. One bystander, a Battery Park City resident who has asked that her name be withheld, recalls,...
Moments afterward, an FDNY rescue boat arrives at the scene of the incident, behind Stuyvesant High School, and deploys a ladder, which the student (assisted by a fire fighter) ascends to safety.

September 21

455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. 1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy. 1897 – The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa...
The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York.

A Report Card for Rental Buildings

A website that aims to, “bring trust back to the Manhattan rental market,” by using government data to foster transparency on the part of landlords and reward those who adhere to best practices, has created a search engine that assigns a letter grade to every apartment in New York based on public records. Rentlogic.com, founded...

September 20

622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrive in Medina 1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de...
Fiorello H. La Guardia and his wife, Marie, in Kansas City, Mo.