Joint Pains
City Hall Hints at Scaled-Back Plan for Lower Manhattan Jail, While Pushing Ahead on Plan for New Prison Downtown
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A rendering that illustrates the bulk and shape of the 45-story, 1.27 million-square-foot prison complex that Mayor Bill de Blasio proposes to erect in Lower Manhattan. City Hall is now reportedly considering a scaled-back version of this proposal.
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The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is reportedly considering a scaled-back version of its controversial plan to erect a new, 45-story prison in Lower Manhattan, as part of a wider scheme to close the City’s notorious detention complex on Rikers Island, and replace it with four, large “borough-based jail” facilities — one in each county, except Staten Island.
In a story first reported by Crain’s, City Hall is said to be weighing a smaller version of this plan, although no specifics about the changes in design have been made available by the Mayor’s office.
Anthony Notaro, chairman of Community Board 1 (CB1), said, “CB1 has not heard any official statement on the height of the proposed borough-based jail. However, without knowing any details, we would laud the City for listening to residents and businesses, since they will bear the downgrade in their quality of life. We call on the administration to sit with our neighbors in a transparent process to plan for this project.”
Patrick Kennell, who chairs CB1’s Land Use, Zoning and Economic Development Committee, added, “any effort to reduce the height and bulk of the proposed jail complex is certainly a good thing. But that’s not nearly enough to address the many other serious problems with the Manhattan borough-based jail as proposed, which the Community Board detailed in its resolution on this proposal. I hope City officials find the courage to dig deeper to do right by our community.
Nancy Kong, a Downtown community leader who has spearheaded local opposition to the plan through the grassroots organization Neighbors United Below Canal, and helped building a City-wide coalition in the group Boroughs United, criticized the Mayor, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and City Council member Margaret Chin for not having, “the courage or fortitude to work with the community and criminal justice advocates — the real advocates and not ones positioned to benefit financially from this $11 billion jail/real estate development and privatization plan — to truly come up with a viable solution that begins today, not 10 years from today. ”
Ms. Kong added, “size was not the only issue with the siting of these facilities. The manner in which these sites were selected was negotiated by elected officials and predetermined, prior to communities being informed by the City. The City’s process to certify this plan was undemocratic and a farce.”
She continued, “the lack of accountability and ability to address the current conditions in Rikers and across all New York City detention centers today speak volumes about the lack of leadership, vision and understanding of real criminal justice reforms.” She characterized the plan as, “tone-deaf. Investing $11 billion to $33 billion in jails instead of investing in communities, in education, in mental health and drug treatment facilities, in diversion/re-entry programs fixes nothing.”
These developments follow a massive Lower Manhattan rally last weekend, in which more than 1,000 demonstrators called upon the City to halt the jail plan, as well as an alternate plan, floated earlier this month by a coalition of volunteer architects and engineers based in Lower Manhattan, who propose to refashion Rikers Island into a campus-like setting with medical and mental health facilities, as well as gardens, vocational training centers, and ferry access. Advocates say this vision could be implemented for approximately $5.6 billion
Rejecting both the opposition and the proposed alternatives, City Hall has pushed aggressively to implement its plan for shuttering Rikers Island and building new detention facilities in four boroughs. Last Thursday, the City Council enacted a bill designating Rikers Island a “public space” and banning its use for correctional facilities after 2026, the year by which the de Blasio plan envisions closing the jail there. And the Council is slated to vote on the overall package of legislation necessary to move forward with the de Blasio plan this Thursday. A wide majority of Council members have already indicated their support for the project, making its passage appear likely.
Matthew Fenton
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EYES TO THE SKY
October 15 – 27, 2019
Morning stars for late risers, meteors
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The evening sky at 7:30 p.m. on October 14, 2019.
Great Square of Pegasus, upper left. Milky Way sweeps up through the Summer Triangle. Diagram: Judy Isacoff/Starry Night
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I am always giddy at the turning point of the season when red and gold leaves fall by day, darkness falls perceptibly earlier every evening and, during the last few weeks of Eastern Daylight Time, bright stars are visible rather late in the morning. The brightest shine into dawn, or civil twilight, which begins within minutes of 6:40am to 7am for the rest of this month through November 3. Clocks are turned back an hour to Eastern Standard Time on November 4.
The latest sunrise this autumn is at 7:29 on November 3. With the regimen of time change, we return to “real time” on the 4th, when the Sun rises an hour earlier, at 6:30am EST.
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While looking for the Orionid’s radiant point, know that you can extend Orion’s Belt to locate Sirius, the sky’s brightest star. Courtesy of EarthSky.org |
The darkness of night, when all naked eye stars and constellations are visible, prevails until about 5:35 this week and 5:50am at month’s end. While temperatures are rather mild, stroll under the star patterns of winter until about 6:30am. Most prominent among them, Orion the Hunter, in the southwest, is the radiant of the Orionid meteor shower, predicted to peak during the hours before first light on Tuesday morning the 22nd, with suggested viewing also on the 21st and 23rd. Even in the absence of light pollution, the last quarter moon will limit visibility to the brightest meteors.
Stir to the sight of harbinger of spring star, Arcturus, which rises in the east-northeast at 6:15am on the 18th; 5:43am on the 26th, to the left of a delicate crescent moon. Seek out a view to the horizon and look in the pre-dawn to dawn sky.
The pleasure of observing Arcturus rise in the morning sky is all the more exciting when we observe it set the night before: at 8:49 tonight, the 15th; 8:37pm on the 18th and 8:07pm on the 26th. Refer to the diagram of the evening sky for details.
Judy Isacoff
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Today’s Calendar
October 15, 2019
8AM
Bird Walk at The Battery with NYC Audubon
The Battery
Explore the diversity of migrating birds that find food and habitat in The Battery. The walk will be led by Gabriel Willow, an educator from NYC Audubon. Gabriel is an experienced birder and naturalist, and is well-versed in the ecology and history of New York City. Meet at the Netherland Memorial Flagpole, at the intersection of Broadway, Battery Place, and State Street.
10:30AM
Zumba Jumpstart
6 River Terrace
Join a fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and more! Enthusiastic instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new steps each week. Bring your friends and share in this fit and fun dancing community. 6 River Terrace. Battery Park City Authority
6PM
CB1 Licensing & Permits Committee
AGENDA
1) Legislative Updates – Presentation by Lucian Reynolds, District Manager CB1
2) Review Status of Sidewalk Café Rule Change – Discussion
6:30PM
What Makes China Laugh?
China Institute
China Institute and Kung Fu Komedy present an uproarious conversation about humor and standup comedy in China. The event will feature stand-up comedians Jesse Appell, Joe Schaefer, and Norah Yang, and Christopher Rea, author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China. $5, $10 40 Rector Street.
7PM
A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Pico Iyer
McNally Jackson
Book reading. After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer can use everything from anime to Oscar Wilde to show how his adopted home is both hauntingly familiar and the strangest place on earth. A Beginner’s Guide to Japan is a playful and profound guidebook full of surprising, brief, incisive glimpses into Japanese culture. Iyer’s adventures and observations as he travels from a meditation-hall to a love-hotel, from West Point to Kyoto Station, make for a constantly surprising series of provocations guaranteed to pique the interest and curiosity of those who don’t know Japan, and to remind those who do of the wide range of fascinations the country and culture contain. 4 Fulton Street.
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Today in History
October 15
1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
1582 – Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers’ hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-Franзois Pilвtre de Rozier.
1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1945 – The former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, is executed for treason.
1956 – FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1991 – The “Oh-My-God particle”, an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
1994 – The Clinton administration returns Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
2008 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow’s history.
2016 – One hundred ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
Births
70 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1599 – Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (d. 1664)
1762 – Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (d. 1820)
1836 – James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (d. 1902)
1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (d. 1975)
1908 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (d. 2006)
1917 – Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (d. 2007)
1938 – Brice Marden, American painter
Deaths
412 – Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria
1385 – Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
1917 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
1976 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
1978 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
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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 migration from Canada to the mountains of Mexico. To read more…
To the editor:
Thank you, kind-hearted gardeners. We must all do whatever little bit we can to hold back the wave of extinctions that is a hair’s breadth from taking the last of our monarchs.
Brendan Sexton
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CLASSIFIEDS & PERSONALS
Swaps & Trades ~ Respectable Employment ~ Lost & Found
John Street Methodist Church Autumn Tag Sale
Thursday, Oct 24, 10 am to 4 pm
Friday, Oct 25, 10 am to 4 pm
Saturday, Oct 26, 10 am to 2 pm
Everything HALF PRICE on Saturday!!!
44 John Street
DO YOU NEED A PERSONAL ASSISTANT?
I am experienced, reliable, knowledgeable and able to work flexible hours.
bestassistantnyc@gmail.com 917.410.1750
CHINESE AIDE/CAREGIVER FOR ELDERLY
Cantonese/Mandarin-speaking and Excellent Cook for Battery Park City.
917-608-6022
SEEKING FREE-LANCE PUBLIC RELATIONS PROFESSIONAL OR SMALL PR FIRM
Work with well-reviewed author of five E-books, developing and implementing outreach strategies.
Includes writing, placement, research, new outlets and on-line advertising. Savvy social media skills a must. Downtown location.
Please send resume and fee schedule to: Email: poetpatsy@gmail.com
HOUSEKEEPING/NANNY/BABYSITTER
Available starting September for PT/FT.
Wonderful person, who is a great worker. Reference Available
Working in BPC. Call Tenzin 347 803 9523
ELDERCARE
Available for PT/FT elder care. Experienced. References Angella
DITCH THE DIETS & LOSE WEIGHT FOR GOOD
Call Janine to find out how with hypnosis.
janinemoh@gmail.com 917-830-6127
EXPERIENCED ELDER CARE
Able to prepare nutritious meals and light housekeeping
Excellent references 12yrs experienced 347 898 5804
NOTARY PUBLIC IN BPC
$2 per notarized signature Text Paula at 917-836-8802
CLEANING SERVICES
Dishes, windows, floors, laundry, bathrooms.
You name it – I will clean it. Call Elle at 929-600-4520
IT AND SECURITY SUPPORT
Experienced IT technician. Expertise in 1-on-1 tutoring for all ages.Computer upgrading & troubleshooting. Knowledgeable in all software programs.
James Kierstead james.f.kierstead@gmail.com 347-933-1362. Refs available
ELDER COMPANION
Experienced with BPC residents. Available nights, days, and weekends. Will cook, clean and administer medicine on time. Speaks French and English. Can start immediately. Please call or text 929-600-4520.
OLD WATCHES SOUGHT, PREFER NON-WORKING
Mechanical pocket and wristwatches sought and sometimes repaired
212-912-1106
If you would like to place a listing, please contact editor@ebroadsheet.com
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Festina Lente
City to Reduce Speed Limit on West Side Highway Tomorrow
Beginning (Saturday, October 12, the City’s Department of Transportation will begin installing signs on the five-mile length of the West Side Highway between Battery Place and West 59th Street, to reduce the speed limit from 35 to 30 miles per hour.
Matthew Fenton
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Aesthetic Inventory
BPCA’s Public Art Collection Represents Multiple Layers of Value
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The Pylons, a pair of granite and stainless steel obelisks by sculptor Martin Puryear |
The Battery Park City Authority, has completed an inventory and appraisal of its public art collection. This is part of a broad effort to take stock of the Authority’s ongoing role as a patron and custodian of pieces that represent an integral thread in the fabric of the community, as evidenced by the fact that space and funding for public art were both set aside decades ago, in the neighborhood’s first master plan, before the first building was erected.
Matthew Fenton
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Fraunces Tavern Celebrates 300 Years
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Peter C. Hein, President of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York welcomed the crowd and toasted Fraunces Tavern
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It’s not often you get invited to a 300th birthday party.
Last week, Fraunces Tavern and Fraunces Tavern Museum celebrated the 300th anniversary of the construction of the building at 54 Pearl Street that would become Fraunces Tavern. The museum also highlighted its new exhibition “A Monument to Memory: 300 Years of Living History.”
Built around 1719 as a private residence for a merchant Stephan Delancey, the building has played various roles in American history.
In 1762, Samuel Fraunces bought the building and turned it into a tavern and colonial meeting place. During the Revolutionary War, it served as Washington’s headquarters, and housed the first offices for the Departments of War, Treasury and Foreign Affairs.
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Ambrose Richardson (former SRNY President), Tom Rogers (SRNY Treasurer), Peter C. Hein and Ray Manning (SRNY Vice President)
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The Sons of the Revolution took control of the building in 1904, and reconstructed it in 1907. That year, it reopened as a restaurant and, on the upper floors, a museum. Today, Fraunces Tavern Museum and Fraunces Tavern (managed by the Porterhouse Brewing company) keep extraordinary American history alive at the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets.
photos courtesy Matthew Carasella
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Saloon Scuffle
Residents Riled about Tribeca Tavern
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Does this look like a dance club? |
More than a dozen concerned Tribeca residents turned out for the September meeting the Licensing and Permits Committee, which weighs in on the granting or renewal of liquor licenses.
They showed up to voice concerns about MI-5, a bar located at 52 Walker Street, which has been a source of local complaints as far back 2007.
Neighbors of the bar allege that it operates as a dance club (in violation of its current license, which is now up for renewal), and that loud music penetrates the upper floors of the residential building located above the bar as late as 4:00 am. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Sin of Omission
City Agency Leaves Cash-Strapped Local Museum Off Roster of Cultural Institutions
The City’s Department of Cultural Affairs has omitted from its list of dozens of New York-based cultural institutions that receive public support the museum that chronicles the oldest community anywhere in the five boroughs.
Since the 1870s, City Hall has maintained a roster of museums and arts groups located on publicly owned land, which are earmarked for tax-payer subsidies. This relationship began with the American Museum of Natural History, and has been updated recently enough to include new entrants like the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in Battery Park City, along with more than 30 other organizations.
But DCA has never included on this list the South Street Seaport Museum, which is the historical repository of New York’s first neighborhood, the colonial port and fishing village that grew up around the first Dutch settlement in what is now Lower Manhattan, starting in 1625.
Matthew Fenton
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Condo Embargo
BPCA Puts the Brakes on Conversions of Rental Buildings within Community
Residents of rental apartments in Battery Park City who fear being thrown out of their homes as developers plan to convert those buildings to condominiums can rest a little bit easier, according to the Battery Park City Authority.
At the October 2 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1, Authority president Benjamin Jones said, “I want to talk about some of the potential condo conversions that people are concerned about. We have been very clear with developers over the last year, and then some, about our position — that we want to preserve the rental housing that exists in Battery Park City.”
Matthew Fenton
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Damascus on the Hudson
Lower Manhattan’s Old Syrian Quarter
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This map from 1899 highlights “Little Syria”
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Today, the stretch of Greenwich and Washington Streets between Battery Place and Albany Street — bisected by the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entrance — is known by the forgettable name, “Greenwich South.”
By all appearances it is an orphan of a neighborhood that never quite coalesced. But nothing could be further from the truth. A century ago, before the World Trade Center or the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (the two giant public works projects that decimated this once-thriving quarter), it was an ethnic enclave as vibrant as Little Italy or Chinatown. To read more…
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Court of Appeal
Local Leaders Urge Preservation of Justice Complex
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The New Deal-era Criminal Courts Building at 100 Centre Street is widely regarded as a historic treasure, but does not enjoy any legal protection that would prevent it from being sold, demolished, and replaced by a skyscraper.
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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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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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From Bunker to Incubator
New Arts Center on Governors Island Will Provide Studio Space and Cultural Programming
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The historic building at Soissons Landing at Governors Island.
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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
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Baxter Street
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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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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
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courtesy: Elaine Marie Austin
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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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While They Were Sleeping
Battery Park City Resident Charged with Two Home Invasions, and Sexual Abuse
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Adam Lublin
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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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Flipped Again
Onetime Non-Profit Nursing Facility Sold to Anonymous Buyer for Five Times Original Price
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Rivington House
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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
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Jake Jacevicius and Joshua DeVoto of BPCA parks operations dump out a binful of fruit and vegetable scraps where the neighborhood’s composting process takes place.
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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?
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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
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Bus speeds in Lower Manhattan average below eight miles per hour
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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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Death Came Calling at the Corner of Wall and Broad Streets, in Lower Manhattan’s First Major Terrorist Attack
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In an instant, both wagon and horse were vaporized, and the closest automobile was tossed twenty feel in the air. Incredibly, the iconic bronze of George Washington surveys the devastation from the steps of the Sub-Treasury without so much as a scratch.
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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
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Norwegian ESCAPE outbound for sea
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Arrivals & Departures
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Tuesday, October 15
Mein Schiff 1
Outbound 13:00 pm (Bayonne); New England/Canadian Maritimes
Seven Seas Navigator
Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 5:30 pm; New England/Halifax, NS/Bermuda
Wednesday, October 16
Amadea
Outbound 8:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes/Quebec City
Thursday, October 17
Disney Magic
Inbound 6:45 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Bermuda
Zuiderdam
Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 6:30 pm; Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Friday, October 18
MSC Meraviglia
Inbound 8:15 am; outbound 7:30 pm; New England/Canadian Maritimes
Norwegian Dawn
Inbound 6:15 am; in port overnight
Queen Mary 2
Inbound 6:00 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm; Transatlantic (Southampton, UK/Hamburg, Germany)
Silver Wind
Inbound 12:15 pm; in port overnight
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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Cass Gilbert and the Evolution of the New York Skyscraper
by John Simko
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No part of this document may be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher
© 2019
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