Month: November 2018

An End to ‘Complete and Utter Abdication’

United States Congressman Jerry Nadler spoke to a crowd of several hundred Battery Park City residents in the auditorium of P.S./I.S. 276 three weeks ago, during the annual meeting of the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association. During that talk, he offered a preview of what might happen, “if the Democrats take control of the House of...
U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler: "We are faced now with attacks on the rule of law and on democratic governance that we haven't seen probably since the Civil War."

November 6

1217 – The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul’s Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs. 1856 – Scenes...
CSS Shenandoah destroys whaling ships

ACC Pet Adoption at Le Pet Spa

Dozens of visitors from the neighborhood and outer boroughs came to the rescue on Saturday as Animal Care Centers of NYC and Phil Castiglia’s Le Pet Spa hosted a Mobile Adoption event in Battery Park City. Judy Passer, manager of Le Pet Spa reports, “Five animals were adopted and many people signed up for fostering and/or volunteering...
Phil Castiglia, owner of Le Pet Spa, and Judy Passer, manager, hold Lilly, an 8 year-old french bulldog mix, with Rena Wright (wearing hat), a BPC resident and ACC volunteer.

Of Gods and Heroes

Gotham is being invaded by aliens and, at least in Lower Manhattan, Marvel Comic super heroes are rushing into battle to save the city. This site specific exhibit which opened in October at the National Museum of the American Indian on Bowling Green, displays the work of comic artist Jeffrey Veregge(Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe) in...

Heritage or Hoosegow?

Community Board 1 (CB1) has concocted a subtle stratagem for opposing (or at last delaying) a plan by the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to erect a new, 40-story jail in Lower Manhattan: proposing to confer landmark status on the existing building, above which the new structure would be perched. A resolution enacted at...
80 Centre Street

Letters

To the editor, It’s unfortunate that Mr. Shapiro (CEO & President of Ballyhoo Media) seems to equate a floating LED billboard with the vinyl wraps seen on some of the harbor ferries. I think that most folks who live along the rivers would probably disagree with him on that…..but would agree that he picked an...
Bally Hoo's Media Barge