Month: November 2018

Gone Fishing

The River Project invites you to the Wetlab on the south walkway of Pier 40, on Thursday, November 8th, for the Release of the Fishes from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. At 4:30 and 5:30 pm, fish, crabs, snails, and more will be thanked for their service, and returned to the Hudson River whence they came. This event marks the end...

Today November 5

1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. 1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. 1605 – Guy Fawkes is arrested. 1768 –...
Vienna State Opera,1898

Democracy is Messy but it Works

To All: My dear friends and neighbors  – I have been on Community Board 1 for almost 30 years. At this point in my ‘community board life’, I have gained the experience to help on the development of parks, water front, traffic safety and of course, schools and youth programs. Honestly, I don’t have time...

Running Unopposed, with an Opponent

Deborah Glick, who was first elected to represent Lower Manhattan in the State Assembly in 1990, is running for reelection this year. She is so popular and widely respected that the Republican Party has not bothered to nominate an opponent against her in tomorrow’s election. And yet, Ms. Glick is being opposed — albeit unwillingly....
State Assembly member Deborah Glick: "It is a very minor, but incredibly irritating, quirk of that law that somebody cannot, after the primary, decline the nomination."

November 2

1889 – The Dakotas are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”....
Hughes H-4 Hercules, completed too late for use in WWII

Clink Stink

A trio of elected officials representing Lower Manhattan have seized on a procedural argument for slowing down the push by the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to build a large new jail in Lower Manhattan. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council member Margaret Chin, and State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou are all urging...
A preliminary rendering of the 40-story prison complex that the City plans to erect on 80 Centre Street.