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Year: 2017

March 22, 2017

LETTERS BPC residents on the BPCA Board

Dear editor: I am glad that some important facts came out at CB1’s BPC committee meeting reported by The BroadsheetDAILY. Most significant, I think, is that with BPC having more residents than Roosevelt Island, there is no excuse not to draw Board Members exclusively from this community! We have an extremely talented and diverse population...
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March 22, 2017

Barrage of Criticism

One focus of the “Open Community Meeting” that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host tonight (Wednesday, March 22), from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant) will be the BPCA’s ongoing analysis of local resiliency, in preparation for measures to...
Committee member Tom Goodkind (right): "It would be a great idea to protect residents. I have no idea why you're concentrating on Wagner Park. An equal amount of time, much more time, needs to be spent on protecting the residents."
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March 21, 2017

March 21

1697 – Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe 1788 – Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana 1826 – Beethoven’s Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna 1857 – Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die 1871 – Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1907...
High speed ejection experiment: Bear in test capsule
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March 21, 2017

Whose Authority Is It, Anyway?

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tomorrow night (Wednesday, March 22), from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community,...
At an April, 2016 session of the quarterly Open Community Meetings hosted by the Battery Park City Authority, State Senator Daniel Squadron speaks about the importance of gaining representation for residents on the Authority's board, as BPCA chair Dennis Mehiel and president Shari Hyman listen.
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March 20, 2017

March 20

141 – 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1345 – Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought  to be the cause of plague epidemic 1760 – Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published 1861 – An earthquake completely...
Ovid "If you want to be loved, be lovable"
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March 20, 2017

EYES TO THE SKY March 20 – April 2, 2017

By the sun’s path in the sky today – and not far off as March turns to April – we can read that spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere. As day dawns at 6:29 a.m. on the 20th, the sun reaches the midpoint of its journey between the extremes marked by the winter and...
We've come through the dark days of winter to the time of equal day and night.
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