To the editor: Thank you for the Broadsheet’s continued coverage of the effort to get more local representation on the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) Board, including Matthew Fenton’s recent “Home Rule, But By Whom?” I appreciate that Community Board 1 is again taking up support for my bill with Assemblymembers Glick and Niou to...
Year: 2017
Statue Without Limitations
State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou led a coalition of elected officials representing Lower Manhattan in a rally on Friday afternoon to push for “Fearless Girl” — a bronze statue of a young female striking a jaunty, audacious pose that was recently installed in front of the “Charging Bull” sculpture at Bowling Green — to remain...
Today in History March 17
45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 432 – St Patrick aged 16 is carried off to Ireland as a slave (traditional date) 1190 – A wave of anti-Semitic riots culminated in the massacre of an estimated...
Home Rule, But By Whom?
The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) has passed a resolution giving a qualified endorsement to a law proposed by State Senator Daniel Squadron, which (if enacted) would require that Lower Manhattan residents be appointed to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), while also rigorously questioning the Senator’s representative...
Today in History March 16
597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king. 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.” 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. 1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of...
Impacted Wisdom Truth
RE: BroadsheetDAILY March13, 2017 Impacted Wisdom Truth To the editor: Question: Would it not make more sense to have such a tax go into a special infrastructure fund dedicated to serve a district rather than just earmarked for schools? It is obvious that not only schools are impacted by residential development: Fire; transportation, sanitation, water,...