Letters

To the editor, They (BPCA) just don’t get it. The July 20th meeting was an embarrassment. I was embarrassed to see a room full of very busy and competent people having to sit through boring information that served the needs of the presenters, but not those of the people stuck in the seats. That consultant...

Letters

To the editor, The BPCA spent approximately $200,000 dollars on a “survey” concerning Battery Park City. Among those surveyed were visitors, workers and residents, now I ask you, what input should a tourist form Arkansas who walks our neighborhood for a few days have??? What input should a worker, who spends the majority of his/her...

Algorithms and Blues

A Battery Park City resident and onetime Stuyvesant High School student will be traveling to Kazan, Russia in August to represent the United States at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), a worldwide, annual computer programming competition for high school students. Afterward, Calvin Lee is off to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under a...

Rowing The Atlantic

Day 67, evening. Another day of fog, no sun and unpleasant rolling which became worse again after I first wrote. But with mild wind from SW I should not complain, there’s nothing worse than having to get out the SA! It took self discipline to do the 2-hour stints and I admit I cut them...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

July 21

365 – A tsunami devastates Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake, which was estimated to be magnitude 8.5 or higher. Five thousand people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city. 1949 – The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty. This treaty established the North Atlantic Trade...

Speaking on Behalf of Those Who Can't

At Wednesday’s meeting of the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), the agenda was interrupted by the arrival of State Senator Daniel Squadron, who was there to do something that is prohibited for people who live in Battery Park City: speak at meetings where the Authority’s directors make decisions that affect the community....
State Senator Daniel Squadron: "Since residents are not allowed to speak, I would like to take this opportunity to speak for them. Here is a sample of what residents would like to tell the board, had they been given the opportunity to speak."