At the September 5 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), engineer Matt Krenek announced that the long-awaited West Thames pedestrian bridge will not open until the second half of 2019. Mr. Krenek, who works for Skanska USA (the outside firm managing the project), explained that, “we’ve obviously been working...
1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time...
The good news: Local rents have come down over the last 12 months. The bad news:Northern Battery Park City is still the most expensive place in America to rent an apartment. This according to a study by the RentCafe real estate blog, which finds that the average rent in the 10282 zip code (which covers...
1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. 1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) 1642 – England’s Parliament...
More than a decade of advocacy by community leaders came to fruition at a meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) on Tuesday evening, when Tammy Meltzer announced that the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has agreed to install a traffic light at the intersection of South End Avenue and...
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul’s Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry. 1774 –...