Year: 2017

Downtown’s Edifice Complex Poised to Get Worse

The developer that spent nearly $400 million to acquire adjoining lots in the Seaport District in 2016, along with hundreds of thousands of square feet of air rights, has received demolition permits for two structures at the site. This may indicate that the construction of a new “super-tall” tower, which could surpass One World Trade...
A 2016 rendering illustrates the scale of the proposed tower, which will be more than double the height of any surrounding structure, and will top out at more than 1,400 feet - higher than One World Trade Center.

Today in History

1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition. 1841 – The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier. 1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone. 1855 – Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America. 1859 – The first conformation dog...
The Stonewall Riots of 1969, a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community against a police raid that took place in the morning of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village.

Grief and Tragedy in Battery Park City

Stories in yesterday’s BroadsheetDAILY leave me so laden with grief and anger that words are difficult. First, the person who died in the water. This tragedy is a testimonial to the stupidity of the governing entities in Battery Park City. I know exactly what Denise Rubin describes from my calls to *311*, (fortunately, not 911)...

That Dog Don’t Hunt

The City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), which often ignores or contradicts the advisory opinions of local community boards, appears to agree with Community Board 1 (CB1) on the question of a new building proposed for Canal Street, between Church Street and Broadway. That’s where developer Trans World Equities wants to construct a nine-story residential tower...
A rendering of the proposal by developer Trans World Equities to build a nine-story apartment building on Canal Street, between Church Street and Broadway.
To the editor: On Saturday night (June 24) I watched an unfortunate man drown in the Hudson River, mere inches from the Esplanade and South Cove, as I tried to explain to a 911 operator where the EMTs and NYPD Harbor Patrol would find BATTERY PARK CITY, the Esplanade and South Cove. (I repeatedly told...

Can God Afford to Rent in Lower Manhattan?

The only house of worship in Battery Park City is winding down operations in anticipation of shutting entirely later this year. St. Joseph’s Chapel, located within the Gateway Plaza apartment complex, has been buffeted by exorbitant rent increases that the leadership of St. Peter’s Parish in the Financial District (of which the Chapel is an...
The last 10:30 am Sunday mass at St. Joseph's, held on June 25, comes after years of grassroots organizing by parishioners to save the Chapel.