Month: March 2018

All Over the Map

A new analysis from an online real estate marketplace, StreetEasy, finds that three Lower Manhattan neighborhoods are among those where market conditions are most favorable to homebuyers, and least advantageous to sellers. The evaluation, released Thursday by StreetEasy’s senior economist Grant Long, documents that Tribeca is the fifth-most auspicious environment for buyers anywhere in the...
Tribeca

March 8

1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. 1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves...
The New York Stock Exchange in 1921

Celebrating Washington’s 286th Birthday And Benefiting Fraunces Tavern Museum

On February 16, 2018,  Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc.  hosted the 141st Annual George Washington Birthday Ball in honor of George Washington and to benefit Fraunces Tavern Museum. Even Martha danced at George’s party. This year’s Distinguished Patriot Award was presented to Robert M. S. McDonald of the United States...
Ambrose Richardson, President of the SRNY with Robert M. S. McDonald of the United States Military Academy, the evening's honoree and Fraunces Tavern Museum Executive Director, Jessica B. Phillips.

Giving credit where credit is due

To the editor: In Monday’s BroadsheetDAILY, I was quoted expressing concern that the financial presentation that the BPCA promised to provide at Monday’s Open Community meeting would not be a deep enough dive. But, they did it!!! Using illuminating PowerPoint slides, BJ Jones, President and COO, gave a terrific explanation of the creation of the Authority,...

Express Distress

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has reorganized its network of Express Bus service between Staten Island and Manhattan, announcing 21 new consolidated routes. Two of these planned routes will bring as many as a dozen large buses into Battery Park City each rush hour. The SIM7 and SIM33 routes are slated to exit the Hugh...
This MTA map illustrates how two new Express Bus routes from Staten Island are planned to divert from West Street into northern Battery Park City, to discharge passengers.

Church Street School of Music and Art’s Event was Quite an Event

More than 250 people attended last night’s annual event celebrating and supporting one of Lower Manhattan’s most cherished institutions, Church Street School for Music and Art. Peter Braus and Dwight Yellen were honored for their guidance in enabling the school to, literally, have “a new lease on life,” as Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores, put it. Earlier...
Peter Braus, Dr. Lisa Ecklund -Flores, and Dwight Yellen