Year: 2017

Letters

To the editor: Your BPC Bond article: (BroadsheetDAILY March 27) ‘Your Word is Their Bond’ 1. Additional reason why locals should be in control of the Board 2. Resale value of home-residents should decrease rapidly as 2069 approaches 3. Younger people will not move into BPC since they will have nothing to gain in the...

The Trump Interview

Upon learning that Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, read Glenn Plaskin’s 1990 Playboy interview with Donald Trump, we asked for and received a comment from the author, a Lower Manhattan resident, president of the Gateway Tenants Association and celebrity interviewer. Over the years, as Entertainment reporter for...

Immobile Miss

After State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou held a rally and led fellow-female elected officials in co-signing a letter demanding that the City find a way to keep the “Fearless Girl” statue at Bowling Green, the sculpture has been given a one-year reprieve. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosted a joint...

March 27

196 BC – Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt 1513 – Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida 1625 – Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne 1668 – English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1790 – The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented...
Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909) created, among other masterpieces, the Porsche 356 and 911. He died in 1998 on this day.

Safety of Our Children

Dear Neighbors, I am writing to you at this time to both alert you and ask for your support in writing to BPCA about the current issues, regarding the safety of our children. As you are aware in BPC of late, there has been a group of teens coming into BPC and terrorizing our children...

Your Word Is Their Bond

At the March 22 meeting of the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), chairman Dennis Mehiel noted that, “our triple-A rating was reaffirmed. So our credit is better than the U.S. government. Not bad.” He was not exaggerating. On March 17, Fitch Ratings (one of the “big three” credit rating agencies that review...