Year: 2017

May 3

1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. 1715 – A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy. 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city. 1830 – The Canterbury...
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How About Renaming Downtown ‘Sardinia’?

The most recent tally of new and planned apartment construction in Lower Manhattan projects that more than 8,000 new residents will be joining the local population (already in excess of 60,000) in the next few years. The Residential Development and Population Growth study by the Downtown Alliance for the last quarter of 2016 (the most...

May 2

1536 – King Henry VIII accused Anne Boleyn of adultery and incest 1776 – France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels 1833 – Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs 1865 – President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 1908 – 1908 “Take me out to the Ball Game”...

Liberty Community Gardens

Celebrating vivid spring flowers and seedlings full of promise, Liberty Community Gardeners gathered on April 29 for the first event of the season. Anne O’Neill, Director of Horticulture, Sustainability and Landscape Design, for Battery Park City Parks, dropped by in case anyone needed advice, and gardeners of all ages got busy. LCG’s 50+ garden plots...
Anne O'Neill, BPCPark's Director of Horticulture offers gardening advice to the members

St. Joseph Chapel

To the editor, I no longer live in BPC and am not a religious person, but when I watched Willie Geist’s story Sunday morning about St. Joseph’s Chapel I was appalled. This little space is as important in remembering 911 as the Memorial across the street. I used to walk our dogs by it quite...
Saint Joseph Chapel after September 11th 2001

Contra Indications

The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to reverse the flow of traffic on multiple streets in the Financial District in order to ease pedestrian and vehicular logjams expected to result from a new construction project on Broad Street, within the New York Stock Exchange security zone. The construction project is a massive new residential...
The new "supertall" residential tower that will shortly begin rising at 45 Broad Street has prompted City transportation officials to redraw the traffic map of the Financial District.