Pillar of the Community

Trinity Church has unveiled plans for the new building that it asked Lower Manhattan residents to help design, in a series of “community conversations” that began in February, 2015. “We began with a public process to understand the hopes and dreams of our community,” explained Trinity’s rector, the Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer, at the final...
This view of the new building from the Trinity Place side shows the existing pedestrian bridge that will connect the structure to Trinity Church.

Today in History

285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. 1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created. 1927...
Happy Birthday Pablo "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Argument about the Avenue

At its full monthly meeting this evening, Community Board 1 (CB1) will weigh a resolution, ratified by the panel’s Battery Park City Committee earlier in October, calling for a halt to a recent project by the Battery Park City Authority (BCPA) to study scenarios under which South End Avenue could be redesigned. In a separate...

Trick or Treat

Battery Park City has many children who would love to Trick or Treat. If you are planning to be home for Halloween, on October 31, between 5:00 and 8:00 PM and will welcome children Trick or Treating to your door, please add your name and apartment to the Trick-or-Treat list on-line at http://www.bpcblockparty.com/halloween.

Today in History

1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France. Constructed between 1194 and 1250, Chartres is the last of at least five which have occupied the site since the 4th century. The majority of the original stained glass windows survive intact, while the architecture has seen only minor changes...
Annie Taylor and her Barrel

Mysterious Precinct with Zero Residents and One Registered Voter Somehow Comes Up with More Than 250 Ballots

(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in an occasional series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series will look at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on Chinatown and Little Italy.) In the recent primary...
The City Board of Election's official map of the 31st Election District designates a footprint one half a block long from north to south, and considerably less than that distance from east to west. State Board of elections records indicate that only one voter is registered in this minuscule Election District, but almost three percent of all the votes cast in the communities of Chinatown and Little Italy were nonetheless recorded here.