Month: October 2018

Greenery: Lawns, gardens, and the serene view of the river

To the editor: RE: The Felicity of the Commons ( BroadsheetDAILY, October 9 ) Some of the suggested improvements already exist a very short walk north in Hudson River Park: for example, a kayak pier and tennis courts. Obviously, there is never enough of any of nature’s gifts. The one thing everyone needs and can use...
Tear Drop Park

Local Elected Officials: Save Our School

City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewerare pushing back against a plan to close P.S. 150, a highly regarded local school also known as the Tribeca Learning Center. In a letter sent Tuesday, the elected officials urge Stellar Management, the owner of the residential portion of Independence Plaza (the giant housing...
PS150 in Tribeca

Today in History October 9

1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. 1446 – The hangul alphabet is published in Korea. 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1604 – Kepler’s Supernova occurs, the most recent supernova to be...
Overview of Hoover Dam Mechanics

The Felicity of the Commons

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has completed a year-long study, conducted in partnership with the sociology faculty at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), to determine how many people use the community’s parks, who they are, and what those parks users think of the 36 acres of public space spread throughout the neighborhood. The...

The Tale of the Ticker Tape, or How Adversity and Spontaneity Hatched a New York Tradition

   While the festivities in New York Harbor didn’t go as scripted that afternoon, the spontaneous gesture it generated from the brokerage houses lining Broadway famously lives on more than a century later.        On October 28, 1886, Liberty Enlightening the World was to be unveiled to New York City and the world...
By the 1860s, ticker-tape machines had replaced human "runners."

Saints Alive

With the January 2018 closing of St. Joseph’s Chapel in Battery Park City came the liberation of John Collier’s Statues of Patron Saints.   Once cramped in their dark alcoves behind the alter of St. Joseph’s, the four pale gold saints now breathe freely on the balcony of St. Peter’s Church, looking out over Barclay...