Year: 2017

South Street Seaport Museum Begins Its 50th Year Celebration

On Saturday, April 29th, South Street Seaport Museum supporters, volunteers, sponsors and founders gathered as Captain Jonathan Boulware, executive director, kicked off a year of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the museum’s founding. Behind him was Lightship AMBROSE, an artifact of New York maritime history, bobbing in the East River waves with its...
The Seaport Museum's ceremony with the ringing of the AMBROSE Bell

When Is a Resident Not a Resident?

A bill that would require Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of the seven seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has passed the New York State Assembly with near-unanimous support. On Tuesday, all 139 members of the lower house of the State legislature who were...

May 4

1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. 1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to...
Haymarket Riot of 1886

Welcome to ‘Sardinia’

To the editor, Instead of Sardinia which has a lot of natural beauty, how about Devil’s Island, the infamous French prison??! Marion Marino ————————————————————————— To the editor, RE: How About Renaming Downtown ‘Sardinia” (BroadsheetDAILY May 2) There will be additional problems in infrastructure and capacity to be considered: 1. Sewage 2. Fire 3. Resilience/Sustainability (since...

A Sod State of Affairs

The proposed redesign of Wagner Park is drawing both criticism and support from a broad range of Lower Manhattan stakeholders. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), a spirited exchange between members of that panel and representatives of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) aired a series of...
Wagner Park