Month: March 2018

The Busing Issue

City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer are pushing legislation to limit the number of tour buses on local streets, addressing a perennial complaint of Lower Manhattan residents and community leaders. According to a a recent report form Governor Andrew Cuomo’s advisory panel, Fix NYC, “the number of tour buses licensed...
The number of tour buses licensed to operate in the City has risen from 54 in 2003 to 237 in 2016.

March 23

1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me liberty, or give me death!” – at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. 1801 – Tsar Paul...
Patrick Henry Oil on canvas, Painted by George Bagby Matthews (1857 - 1943)

Neighbors

Bob Townley is a self-confessed workaholic, community organizer and, in his words, “a large person in love with his 84 year old mom Anita Townley, his wife Veronika Korvin and his two children, Robert and Kate.” As the Founder and Executive Director of Manhattan Youth, Mr. Townley oversees the after-school and summer camp activities of some 5,000 kids...

Why Is This Sunday Different from All Other Sundays?

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will partner with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) to present a kid-friendly “Pop-Up Passover” this Sunday (March 25), from 10:00 am to noon. The event will feature old and new Passover traditions, Yiddish songs, create personalized Haggadot (the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of...

March 22

238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors. 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War. 1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables. 1638 – Anne Hutchinson...
Marcel Marceau

TO the editor: I’m not looking to diss a Pier.

To the editor,   I’m not looking to diss a Pier.    The new Pier 25 in Tribeca is very nice, clean, and filled with children under 12 and their parents.  But this is not at all the old Piers 25 & 26 – not even close. It  is generic, cold and sadly void of...
RE: Special Quay: Construction on Planned Pier 26 Amenities to Begin Later This Year (BroadsheetDAILY March 21, 2018)