South West Makes Way for Upper East

A mainstay of Battery Park City’s restaurant scene will soon be almost-but-not-quite gone, and replaced by an uptown cousin. SouthWestNY, which been serving quesadillas and margaritas to Lower Manhattan residents since 1999, is a victim of changing times, according to Alexander Yellen, associate counsel at Merchants Hospitality, which owns the eatery. “Revenue has slowed, because...
Lawyer Alexander Yellen, representing Merchants Hospitality (the owners of SouthWestNY) explains to the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 the changes that will soon be coming to the restaurant.

RiverWatch

Sunday, January 8 Norwegian Gem Inbound 9:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Tortola Saturday, January 14 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 5:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 3:00 pm; St. Kitts Sunday, January 15 Norwegian Breakaway Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 3:30 pm; San Juan Sunday, January 15 Queen Elizabeth Inbound 6:30 am; in port overnight Monday, January 16...
Queen Elizabeth

Volunteers Needed

On Monday, January 23, 2017, the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will conduct its annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) Count, as part of an ongoing effort to engage and help bring indoors New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. On the night of HOPE, with the assistance of fellow New Yorkers, volunteers help canvass parks, subways, and...

January 13

532 – Nika riots continue in Constantinople. 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV. 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks...
The "Soybean Car" was actually a plastic-bodied car unveiled by Henry Ford on August 13, 1941 at Dearborn Days, an annual community festival.

Campus Rumpus

Finding vast wealth hidden in your own backyard sounds like a good thing, but not when the wealth is claimed by somebody else and you have to cope with the chaos that its discovery unleashes. This may be the dilemma that Lower Manhattan will face if real estate developers ever gain control of the campus...
The Borough of Manhattan Community College campus sits on six square blocks of prime land along the Hudson River waterfront.

January 12

1808 – John Rennie’s scheme to defend St Mary’s Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture. 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 1915 – The United States...
St Mary's Church, Reculver, was founded in the 7th century as either a minster or a monastery on the site of a Roman fort at Reculver, which was then at the north-eastern extremity of Kent in south-eastern England.