Year: 2017

In Memoriam: Linda Belfer

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Linda Belfer, our founding President and devoted friend and neighbor. Linda will always be remembered for her titanic spirit and staunch, tireless advocacy for Gateway residents. As a lawyer, Board President, and community activist, she demonstrated passion and concern for all our constituents. Her...
Linda Belfer

Wanna Buy a Vacant Lot?

An empty lot at the southeast corner of Washington and Carlisle Streets, behind the W Hotel, is being shopped for sale at $260 million. The owners, father-and-son team Fred and Richard Ohebshalom, bought the 11,000-square-foot site of a former parking garage during foreclosure in 2011, for $57.5 million. They subsequently spent millions more assembling air...
The vacant lot that has remained empty for more than a decade at 111 Washington Street, and appears likely to remain desolate while the father-and-son team of developers who own the property fight over it in court.

April 13

1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1742 – George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. 1870 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first...
Project MKUltra was the code name given to a CIA program of experiments on human subjects and was intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control.

Flip This Affordable Housing Unit

A new report by the City’s Independent Budget Office (IBO) indicates that Battery Park City and the Financial District have the highest turnover of tenants in rent-stabilized apartment units of any community in the five boroughs, when tallying buildings built after 1974. The IBO, a publicly funded agency that provides nonpartisan information about the government...

April 11

1713 – Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain – English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty 1775 – The last conviction for witchcraft in Germany takes place. It was on this date, April 11, 1775, that the sentence of death for witchcraft was handed down in Germany. Some records indicate that...
Witchcraft

Roll Reversal

The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) wants to change the direction of traffic on a one-way street in Tribeca. Jay Street, which runs for one block between Greenwich and Hudson Streets (two blocks, if you count the intersection with Staple Street, an alley that seems to function mainly as a location for film and television...
Tribeca's Jay Street, looking eastbound from Greenwich Street (toward Hudson Street) is the focus of a proposal to create a new westbound one-way street.