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July 28, 2016

Cashing In on the Disabled

Community Board 1 (CB1) is taking a stand against attempts by two real estate developers to make a pair of Lower Manhattan properties more lucrative, under the guise of complying with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Because both buildings are regulated by varying forms of landmarks protection, neither modification can be built...
An architect's rendering of the subway elevator cube proposed for the east side of Broad Street, at Exchange Place. This structure, and its twin, located across the street, will be approximately 100 square feet.
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July 27, 2016

Rowing the Atlantic

Yesterday will be another day to forget! I rowed for two sessions in morning, never getting much speed and with wind from SSW tried first to go more E, but found short steep waves at 60 degrees to those with the wind. Less than a boat’s length between these transverse waves, so the rolling was...
Rowing the Atlantic
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July 27, 2016

July 27

1299 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman Empire. 1663 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English...
Illustrators Currier & Ives produced this lithograph of the last hours of the "SS Golden Gate"
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July 27, 2016

Letters

To The Editor, One item addressed by the first public speaker you highlighted in Monday’s lead story, was that the residents of Gateway Plaza should not have any say in what occurs with the frontage of 21 South End to which she owns her apartment. Of course, many of my friends at Gateway, all who...
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July 27, 2016

Residents Reluctant to Catch the Sphere

Days after the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey determined to locate the iconic sculpture damaged by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 within the new Liberty Park, Community Board 1 (CB1) has passed a resolution criticizing the plan. The focus of these dueling decisions is “The Sphere,” a 1971 metallic orb...
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July 27, 2016

Rowing The Atlantic

I saw the horizon briefly 2 hours ago, now it’s all shades of gray and clammy fog yet again! Right now I can see no further than across an average school square, so especially my young readers – hope you are still there – must forgive me for boring reports. No fog means I see...
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