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Lower Manhattan’s Local News
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TONIGHT’S FILM ~ EDDIE THE EAGLE
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Put Your Mouth Where Your Money Is
Council Member Chin Invites Ideas for Spending $1 Million in Public Funds
Tonight (Thursday, October 3) Lower Manhattan residents will gather at the Downtown Community Center (120 Warren Street, near the corner of West Street) to help decide how $1 million of their tax dollars are spent. City Council member Margaret Chin will host a session of her participatory budgeting campaign, which invites constituents to propose how approximately 17 percent of her discretionary budget (which totals around $5.7 million) will be allocated.
“Participatory budgeting represents local democracy at its best,” observes Ms. Chin. “District 1 is a community full of diversity, and I have always valued the budget process as an opportunity to bring more resources to the communities most in need. Over the past several months, we worked hard to build the capacity to engage every part of the district before we started participatory budgeting. This year, we’re ready and thrilled to take on this challenge. Participatory budgeting is a program that will introduce even more New Yorkers into the democratic process, including kids as young as 11. The next few weeks are critical, as we want as many ideas for capital projects from as many parts of Lower Manhattan as possible.”
Attendees at tonight’s meeting (which begins at 6:00 pm) will be asked to discuss local needs and develop proposals to meet those needs, with a particular focus on capital improvements for local schools, parks, libraries, public housing, and other public spaces with the community.
Participatory budgeting is as year-long process. After the initial ideas are developed into full proposals, Lower Manhattan residents will be asked to vote (at a future meeting) to decide which proposals to fund. The initial phase of this process, of which tonight’s meeting will be a part, will focus on collaboratively developing and documenting preliminary ideas, and identifying areas of consensus.
Lower Manhattan resident Bob Schneck, observed at a Wednesday evening meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), on which he serves as a member of the Battery Park City Committee that, “the idea here is really to get people’s ideas. If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it? This is a real opportunity, because I’m always impressed with the intelligence and insight of people who live in this community. They have ideas that I wouldn’t have. And lots of kids, students, want to contribute ideas.”
No R.S.V.P. is necessary to attend tonight’s meeting, but anyone unable to attend is welcome to submit ideas via email to pbnyc@council.nyc.gov. For more information, please email Ms. Chin’s deputy chief of staff and director of legislation and budget, Marian Guerra, at mguerra@council.nyc.gov.
Matthew Fenton
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Run for Knowledge Annual Fundraiser Tomorrow
The 20th Run for Knowledge, the annual fundraiser for Battery Park City’s public schools PS/IS 276, PS 89 and IS 289 will take place tomorrow, Friday October 4.
The one-mile fun run begins on the esplanade in Wagner Park and has its finish line at the gazebo in Rockefeller Park. There, the runners will enjoy the Family Festival that features food, carnival games and activities for the runners and families alike.
Registered participants are requested to gather at 5:15 PM on the esplanade at Wagner Park for a 5:30 PM race start time.
Those interested in participating in the fun run, please contact R4K@bpcschool.org.
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Battery Park City Day Nursery
33rd Annual Hayride & Family Fest Today!
The Battery Park City Day Nursery is holding its 33rd annual Hayride and Fall Family Fest at 4PM today.
Climb aboard the two horse-powered wagon and go for a ride around Rector Place. It costs $5 for adults and children of the Nursery who have purchased a Fall Family Fest ticket and $7 for everyone else.
215 South End Avenue (between Albany and Rector Place)
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The State of the Community
BPCA President to Discuss Strategic Plan for Community at Meeting Tonight
Tonight (Wednesday, October 2), Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) president Benjamin Jones will attend a meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) to discuss a preliminary draft of the agency’s first-ever strategic plan, a vision for the community’s future that encompasses resiliency, affordability, and quality of life, among other issues. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Sunday September 29 Tunnel to Towers Run photo: Gerard S. Strain
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Court of Appeal
Local Leaders Urge Preservation of Justice Complex
Community Board 1 is urging the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to consider granting legally protected status to the Criminal Courts Building, at 100 Centre Street. The case of 100 Centre Street takes on special urgency in this context, because, as the CB1 resolution notes, “the Manhattan Criminal Court building shares the same underlying City lot with the south tower of the Manhattan Detention Complex. This appears to mean that if City Hall needed extra space for the proposed new jail, it would face no legal obstacle in demolishing all or part of the historic building.
Matthew Fenton
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The Naked Truth
The Pace University School for the Performing Arts will stage To Clothe the Naked, a rarely performed drama by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello, from October 1 to 6, at the 3-Legged Dogtheater (80 Greenwich Street, south of Rector Street). The story, a blend of Pirandello’s trademark blend of heartbreak and unsentimentality, is the tale of a young girl-seduced, abused, and abandoned-who struggles to create an identity for herself.
Tickets for this Broadway-quality production are priced at less than a movie ($15 for adults; $5.00 for students).
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Today’s Calendar
Thursday October 3, 2019
1PM
Pipes at One
St. Paul’s Chapel
First Thursdays Conservatory Series: Students of Daniel Aune and John Walker from the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD.
4PM
33rd Annual Hayride & Family Fest
Battery Park City Day Nursery
Climb aboard the two horse-powered wagon and go for a ride around Rector Place. It costs $5 for adults and children of the Nursery who have purchased a Fall Family Fest ticket and $7 for everyone else. 215 South End Avenue (between Albany and Rector Place) info@bpcdaynursery.com
6PM
Plus Pool Light Launch
Seaport District NYC
Plus POOL Light is a public art installation in NYC’s Harbor designed by PLAYLAB, INC. and Family New York. The project visualizes the conditions of NYC’s waterways through a light installation, posing the question: how’s the water today?
Installed at the Seaport District at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan, the plus-shaped + POOL Light measures 50 x 50 feet, is constructed of LEDs, and floats in the East River as it continuously changes in color based on the condition of water, indicating when it’s great, or not so great for swimming.
6PM
Community Board 1’s Environmental Protection Committee
Manhattan Borough President’s Office 1 Centre Street, 19th Floor – South
AGENDA
1) Lower Manhattan Quarterly Resiliency Update – Presentation by
* Jordan Salinger, Mayor’s Office of Resiliency
* Suzan Rosen, Office of Emergency Management
* Gwen Dawson, Battery Park City Authority
* Jennifer Cass, Economic Development Corporation
* Elijah Hutchinson, Economic Development Corporation
2) South Battery Park City Resiliency – Update by
* Jennifer Dudgeon, Battery Park City Authority
* Gonzalo Cruz, Aecom
* Katy Barsanti, Aecom
3) District Needs Statement and Budget Requests for FY2021 – Discussion
6:30PM
Monica Bill Barnes & Company’s “Days Go By”
Brookfield Place
Monica Bill Barnes & Company presents Days Go By, set in the public atrium of Brookfield Place crowded with people moving among the palm trees against a backdrop of Hollywood style sunsets as they go about their day. FREE
8PM
Outdoor movie screening
Tonight’s move “Eddie The Eagle”
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Fearless Girls
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Vertical Values
Costs to Rent or Own in Lower Manhattan Are Matched by Lofty Local Earnings
A slew of recent reports documents what everyone who lives or works in Lower Manhattan already sensed in their bones: This is a mind-numbingly expensive place to call home.
In September, RENTCafé issued a new analysis of the most expensive neighborhoods for renters in the United States that finds northern Battery Park City (zip code 10282) is the priciest enclave in America, with an average rent of $6,211 per month. Coming in at second place is zip code 10013, which covers western Tribeca, along with part of Soho. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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EYES TO THE SKY
September 30-October 13, 2019
Amateur astrophotographer soars: The Eagle Nebula
Looking through a telescope, we travel in light years. One light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers or nearly 6 trillion miles. The Eagle Nebula, pictured here, is about 7000 light years away and includes a cluster of about 8,500 stars. To read more…
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Steven Amedee Gallery
GRRR | Brad Greenwood
“GRRR is the noise of the street, the buzz-saw of the news cycle, the constant low growl in the throat. What is it like to try to live peacefully, contentedly, lovingly while the animals roar? Can there be quiet in the midst of these troubling noises? ~ Brad Greenwood
The exhibition runs through November 30 at Steven Amedee Gallery, 41 North Moore Street in Tribeca.
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Build It and They Will Come ~ Monarch Butterflies Pause to Refuel in Lower Manhattan
Click to watch monarch butterflies feeding on milkweed planted by the Battery Park City Authority to help them on their annual fall schlep from Canada to the mountains of Mexico. To read more…
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From Bunker to Incubator
New Arts Center on Governors Island Will Provide Studio Space and Cultural Programming
Lower Manhattan has a new cultural hub. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Trust for Governors Island have partnered to create the LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, a 40,000-square foot studio space and education facility, housed within a restored 1870s ammunition warehouse — a relic from the days when the island was a military outpost.
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Rapport to the Commissioner
CB1 Makes Exception to New Policy; Okays Naming Street for Former NYPD Commissioner
A public figure from the 1980s may soon be honored by having a street co-named in his memory, if Community Board 1 gets its way. The panel recommended that Benjamin Ward, New York’s first African-American police commissioner, be commemorated by rechristening one block of Baxter Street as Benjamin Ward Way.
This comes on the heels of a controversial decision by CB1 in 2018 to decline such a request on behalf of James D. McNaughton, who, on August 2, 2005, at age 27, became the first New York City Police officer to be killed in action while serving in “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
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While They Were Sleeping
Battery Park City Resident Charged with Two Home Invasions, and Sexual Abuse
A Battery Park City resident has been arrested twice in the space of five days on charges arising from two separate (but related) incidents, in which he is alleged to have sexually assaulted one woman, and sexually menaced her roommate on another, prior occasion.
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Shattering the Lens
There isn’t anything unusual in a woman keeping a light in her window to guide men folk home, I just happen to keep a bigger light.” – Keeper Margaret Norvell
Shattering the Lens is an exhibit at the National Lighthouse Museum.
Artist Elaine Marie Austin, using her paintings of keepers and their lighthouses, sheds light on the dynamic impact of female lighthouse keepers.
It is inspired by the book Women Who Kept the Lights by Mary Louise Clifford and J. Candace Clifford.
The show runs through October 20, 2019.
National Lighthouse Museum
200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point, Staten Island
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TODAY IN HISTORY
October 3
52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government.
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1872 – The Bloomingdale brothers open their first store at 938 Third Avenue
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis maiden flight (Mission STS-51-J).
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
1990 – German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Births
85 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician (d. 42 BC)
1797 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1804 – Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1878)
1896 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic (d. 1987)
1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American author and academic (d. 1938)
1925 – Gore Vidal, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2012)
1936 – Steve Reich, American composer
1941 – Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter
Deaths
1656 – Myles Standish, English-American captain (b. 1584)
1690 – Robert Barclay, Scottish theologian and politician, second Governor of East Jersey (b. 1648)
1838 – Black Hawk, American tribal leader (b. 1767)
1867 – Elias Howe, engineer, invented the sewing machine (b. 1819)
1967 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
credits include wikipedia and other internet sources
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Flipped Again
Onetime Non-Profit Nursing Facility Sold to Anonymous Buyer for Five Times Original Price
If there is an Exhibit A in the case of fevered speculation in Lower Manhattan real estate, it must be Rivington House
After purchasing the block-long, 150,000-square-foot structure (located at 45 Rivington Street, near the Williamsburg Bridge), the developer, the Allure Group, paid the City an additional $16 million to remove the deed restriction that limited the property to its legacy use of non-profit, residential healthcare. To read more…
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Breaking It Down
Composting Catches on in Battery Park City
You’re probably heard of the farm-to-table movement. Thanks to the Battery Park City Authority’s compost initiative, there’s a burgeoning table-to-earth movement in this Lower Manhattan community.
What happens to the scraps after you’ve dropped them in the bin? How do your apple peels and corn husks turn into rich, beneficial compost?
The Broadsheet set out to investigate. To read more…
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‘And the Little Children Shall Lead Them…’
Lower Manhattan Students Leave School to March in The Climate Strike
Today (Friday, September 20) elementary and high school students from throughout Lower Manhattan — and around the City — are expected to walk out of classes shortly before noon to attend Climate Strike NYC: A Call to Action. Matthew Fenton
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Death Came Calling at the Corner of Wall and Broad Streets, in Lower Manhattan’s First Major Terrorist Attack
As the noon hour approached on a fall Thursday morning in 1920, a horse-drawn wagon slowly made its way west down Wall Street toward “the Corner,” the high-powered intersection of Wall and Broad. Its driver came to a gentle stop in front of the Assay Office, where stockpiles of gold and silver were stored and tested for purity. But theft was not his motive.
John Simko
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RiverWatch
Cruise Ships in New York Harbor
Arrivals & Departures
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Thursday, October 3
Mein Schiff 1
Inbound 7:00 am (Bayonne)
in port overnight
Friday, October 4
Mein Schiff 1
Outbound 10:00 pm (Bayonne)
Norfolk, VA/Charleston, SC/Florida/Bahamas
Queen Mary 2
Inbound 6:00 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm
Bar Harbor, ME/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Silver Cloud
Inbound 6:15 am; in port overnight
Saturday, October 5
Anthem of the Seas
Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Bermuda
Disney Magic
Inbound 6:45 am; outbound 4:30 pm; N/A
MS Fram
Inbound 6:30 am; outbound 5:00pm
Miami, FL/Cozumel, Mexico/Central America
Regal Princess
Inbound 6:30 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm
New England/Canadian Maritimes
Silver Cloud
Outbound 6:30 pm;
Norfolk, VA/Charleston, SC
Sunday, October 6
Carnival Sunrise
Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes
Celebrity Summit
Inbound 7:30 am (Bayonne); 4:00 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Norwegian Escape
Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Bermuda
Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, New Jersey, and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves, hurricanes and the whims of upper management.
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If They Went Any Slower, They’d Slip Into Reverse
City Transportation Study Finds That Lower Manhattan Bus Service Is Among Most Sluggish in Five Boroughs
The annual New York City Mobility Report, produced by the City’s Department of Transportation, contains two data points that will come as no surprise residents of Lower Manhattan. The first of these is that the median speed for Downtown bus service ranks among the slowest of any community in the five boroughs. And the second is that this creeping pace is, if anything, getting creepier. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Cass Gilbert and the Evolution of the New York Skyscraper
by John Simko
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