Month: February 2019

‘Xin Nian Kuai Le’

By now, most of us have heard that the current Lunar New Yearcelebration is inaugurating the Year of the Pig, the 12th sign in the Chinese Zodiac. What fewer people realize, however, is that there are five Years of the Pigin the 60-year cycle observed throughout East Asia — because each of the 12 annual...
Brookfield Place will offer traditional Chinese music and dancing, along with numerous other Lunar New Year festivities, this weekend.

Being Vigilant about the View

The Howard Hughes Corporation plans to build a large new restaurant under the FDR Drive, near the intersection of John and South Streets, in the South Street Seaport neighborhood. At its January 22 meeting, Community Board 1 (CB1) debated two resolutions to authorize this proposal. The first resolution, which considered whether to grant the new...
An architect's rendering for the new Blockhouse Restaurant, proposed for publicly owned land beneath the FDR Drive.

‘Make Changes’

Here are the last words of Patrick Turner, aged 16: “So much pressure is placed on the students to do well that I couldn’t do it anymore. There is never a moment to brake. Finals have pressured me immensely, along with a lot of other people. I want you to know that my parents were...

February 5

*AD 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. *1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. *1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the...
Miners and their wives posing with the finders of the nugget, Richard Oates, John Deason and his wife.

Debate Over Proposed Seaport Brownfield Remediation

Re: “Don’t-Drink-the-Water Street” (BroadsheetDAILY Jan. 30, 2019) To the editor: Residents in the neighborhood are resisting by making their objections known to allowing the Seaport 250 Water LLC, an entity owned by the Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC), to begin brownfield remediation on the property they designate as 250 Water Street (aka 304 Pearl Street). HHC’s...
250 Water Street

Perjurious Promises about Penitentiary Plaza

Lower Manhattan residents have one more reason to be skeptical about any assurances from City Hall regarding givebacks to the community in exchange for acquiescing to a large new jail at the site of the current Manhattan Detention Complex (MDC). At the January 22 meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), district manager Lucian Reynolds recounted...
The plaza in front of the Manhattan Detention Complex was originally promised to the Lower Manhattan community as public space -- a pledge that was ignored and forgotten after the City obtained local agreement to build the facility.