To the editor: Your ongoing coverage of the South End Avenue arcades makes me think of Bologna, the Italian city renowned and beloved for medieval system of covered walkways. An internet search for “Bologna arcades” will yield hundreds of evocative images of the 24 miles of “portici” in the historic center of the city, constructed...

A Look Back in Time

The organizers of the 15th Annual Battery Park City Block Party (slated for Sunday, September 18) are requesting baby pictures. Not the human kind, but photos of Battery Park City itself in the 1980s. If you moved here when the neighborhood was still a frontier town, please email images to organizer Rosalie Joseph at Info@BPCBlockParty.com,...
Kite flying on the esplanade in early Battery Park City

Mangiamo!

Lower Manhattan’s transformation from culinary desert into a foodie Shangri-La is taking a giant step forward with the opening this week of Eataly, the high-end Mediterranean market that gained fame on West 23rd Street as a culinary version of Disney World. The company is debuting a 40,000-square foot outpost (also containing multiple sit-down restaurants) on...

Imagining a New South End Avenue

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host the second of two Concept Development Open House meetings tonight (Monday, August 1), to share preliminary ideas about how to reconfigure the streetscapes on South End Avenue and West Thames Street, and to solicit feedback from the residents. The session will take place at Six River Terrance...

Rowing the Atlantic

After my euphoric report last night the wind died and the current reversed, sent us first SW and this morning straight W… We got down to 997 nm to finish, now it’s at 1008 and increasing by 1 knot, ie 1 nm/hr. Totally gray day again, not a glimmer of sun. Main batteries are at...
Rowing the Atlantic

July 29

1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps: George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army. 1858 – The United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. Negotiated by Townshend Harris, the first U.S. consul to Japan, the treaty provided for the opening of five ports to U.S....