To the editor: The new bridge would involve going way out of my way to get the the Rector St 1 and R stations vs the existing one which provides much more direct access. I suppose the alternative for me and others is (go somewhat out of my way) to cross at Albany St intersection....
The bridge, shown here in an architect's rendering, will be a 230-foot long lenticular truss, stretching diagonally across the junction of West and West Thames Streets, from the southwest to the northeast corners of the intersection.
A venerable publishing firm whose history is bound up with that of Lower Manhattan is asking for some acknowledgement (in the form of a street corner renaming), but Community Board 1 (CB1) is saying, “not so fast.” HarperCollins Publishers began life as J. & J. Harper in 1817, when brothers James and John (having been...
Pouty Plutocrats: A group portrait of the Harper brothers (Fletcher, onetime New York City Mayor James, John, and Joseph) by pioneering American photographer Matthew Brady, displaying the obligatory somber miens that were considered becoming among nineteenth century magnates.
In the Clinton vs Trump contest, you have seen every political dirty trick (demonizing lies, voter suppression) in the book by Republicans who historically are well-known for them and should speak for itself to a thinking person. If in power, Trump may evolve from a”rigged”paranoid/ “got all answers”megalomaniac to a narcissist psychopath like Hitler surrounded...
In the Clinton vs Trump contest, you have seen every political dirty trick (demonizing lies, voter suppression) in the book by Republicans who historically are well-known for them and should speak for itself to a thinking person. If in power, Trump may evolve from a”rigged”paranoid/ “got all answers”megalomaniac to a narcissist psychopath like Hitler surrounded...
361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor. 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina. 1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as...
One of the lesser told stories of 9/11 is also one of the most inspirational. The new book American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 examines this impromptu response of mariners to the water’s edge and explores what we can learn from the mobilization of boats that rescued hundreds of thousands of people...
