Month: March 2019

Battery Park City resident Marijo Russell-O’Grady has co-authored a new book that is timely and topical, albeit in a troubling way. With her colleague, Katie Treadwell, Dr. Russell-O’Grady (who holds a PhD in higher education administration) has written, “Crisis, Compassion, and Resiliency in Student Affairs: Using Triage Practices to Foster Well-Being,” a research-driven analysis of...

Batting practice Downtown Little League   OPENING DAY is April 6th 12NOON Battery Park City Health Workshop  VISION HEALTH 6 River Terrace Technique in Brow Lifting Lunch presentation Q&A 12:30 – 2pm All Seminars are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first serve basis. Lunch will be served. bpcseniors@gmail.com  212-312...

This schematic details the design and allocation of space that prison-reform advocates hope will make a new jail a more humane detention facility. On Monday, the clock began ticking on the approval process under which a plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio to build a new, high-rise jail in Lower Manhattan may move ahead, or...

Batting practice Downtown Little League   OPENING DAY is April 6 2-3:30PM After Poland  with Author Cheryl Chaffin Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust As a student in Italy in the 1980s, Cheryl Chaffin first discovered the writing of Primo Levi, the eminent Italian-Jewish chemist, poet, and writer of Holocaust testimony....