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Pied-a-Scare

Two elected officials representing Lower Manhattan are pushing for a tax on high-value New York City apartments owned by people whose primary residence is outside the five boroughs. For the past five years, State Assembly member Deborah Glick has sponsored and passed legislation, “to impose a modest, graduated ‘pied-a-terre’ tax on the most expensive non-primary...

TODAYS’ CALENDAR MARCH 6

1PM Adult Chorus Battery Park City Parks Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year. Meet at 6 River Terrace. www.bpcparks.orgFREE 2:30PM Figure Drawing Battery Park...

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