Month: September 2017

Test Score Rankings for Lower Manhattan Schools

To the editor: Regarding the fantastic test score rankings of the Lower Manhattan school district: I would love to see a study done showing how many kids needed extracurricular tutoring to ensure these standards could be met. My older child attended PS234 which was fantastic – he exited the school with an excellent grasp of...

September 11

1226 – The Roman Catholic practice of public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass spreads from monasteries to parishes. 1541 – Santiago, Chile, is destroyed by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco. 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there. 1776 – British-American peace conference on Staten Island fails...

Foldenauer: Close Loopholes, Make Real-Estate Carpetbaggers Pay Their Fair Share, and Link Development to New Schools

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday (September 12), the Democratic primary will effectively decide who will represent Lower Manhattan in the City Council for the coming four years. (Although the general election is in November, the heavily “blue” landscape of Lower Manhattan usually makes the nomination of the Democratic party tantamount to winning the wider contest, and...

Marte: Participatory Budgeting, Historic Preservation, Support for Small Businesses, and a City Takeover of Battery Park City

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday (September 12), the Democratic primary will effectively decide who will represent Lower Manhattan in the City Council for the coming four years. (Although the general election is in November, the heavily “blue” landscape of Lower Manhattan usually makes the nomination of the Democratic party tantamount to winning the wider contest, and...
Challenger Christopher Marte, running on the Independence Party line, captured 37 percent of the vote, which amounts to an unusually strong showing for a third-party candidate in Lower Manhattan.

September 11th, 16 Years Ago

September 11, 2001. Most mornings, I wake up and usually head up to my studio to paint. On the morning of September 11th, I was working on a painting in my studio located on the third floor of the mansion in Columbia, Pennsylvania where I live and work and operate  a bed and breakfast. The...
The Emblem of Strength—New York City

Excellence and Ambivalence

Pupils at six Lower Manhattan public elementary schools are recording stellar scores on their fourth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) exams, putting each of their schools in the top ten percent of all public schools City-wide. According to an analysis by Tom Goodkind — a member of Community Board 1 (CB1), who has been compiling statistics...