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Letters

To the editor: Your editorial slamming the governor’s congestion pricing proposal is breathtaking in its parochialism. Nowhere do you mention one of the proposal’s two primary objectives: to unsnarl traffic and improve car, taxi and bus travel times 15-20 percent. And you barely refer to its main goal, to raise revenue to pay for modern...

TODAYS’ CALENDAR MARCH 5

1PM “Time’s Arrow – Susanna, Part the First” St. Paul’s Chapel This year’s Time’s Arrow festival juxtaposes old and new stories of the biblical character Susanna. Exploring sensitive themes of our time, the festival includes the full staged world premiere of the new opera Artemisia and concerts of Handel’s Susanna as Trinity continues its presentation...

The Room Where America Was Born Is Reborn

If America has a birthing room, the most common claim to that title would be asserted by Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were adopted. But a more interesting plea for recognition could be made on behalf of a large, upstairs parlor in a building at Pearl and...
This 1883 engraving by Henry Alexander Ogden depicts (100 years after the fact) Washington's farewell address to his troops in 1783, in the Long Room at Fraunces Tavern.

Preventing Trash-pocalypse

With more than 60,000 residents crammed into one square mile, Lower Manhattan has an endless supply of one commodity: garbage, which accumulates by the hundreds of tons every 24 hours. Add to this mix thousands of new apartments planned for the neighborhood in coming years (many of them in “super-tall” highrises), narrow streets laid out...
The accumulation of street trash throughout Lower Manhattan

Eyes to the Sky March 4 – 17, 2019

At this moment every year, we meet to observe with delight the first signs of spring in the sky, before the earth thaws. The increasing light and heat of the Sun and the re-appearance of spring stars Regulus and Arcturus in the evening sky are heralds of flowering elm trees, blooming willows and alders, redwing blackbirds, and,...
Arcturus and the Sun

In Memoriam: Tom Goodkind

Lower Manhattan has lost a leader, an advocate, an artist, and a renaissance man. Tom Goodkind died on Thursday morning, after waging a long battle against chronic illness. He was 65 years old. A longtime resident of Gateway Plaza, in Battery Park City, Mr. Goodkind also served for decades on Community Board 1 (CB1), where...
Tom Goodkind