‘This Should Never Have Happened’

To the editor: I was horrified to read of the severe injuries to the two boys assaulted near Asphalt Green – especially to the boy who suffered the severe skull fracture. As a senior citizen with mobility issues, Ruth Ohman’s comments in particular really resonated with me. I feel more vulnerable these days knowing that...
BPCA Officer

Outrage Builds Over Attack on Two Teenagers

In the wake of a December 19 violent assault and robbery that left two teenage boys hospitalized, amid questions surrounding the alleged failure of newly hired private security guards to intervene, elected officials representing Lower Manhattan are calling on the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to reevaluate its plan to supplant Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP)...
BPCA Security Guard

Today in History

  1569 – First recorded lottery in England is drawn in St. Paul’s Cathedral 1599 – Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam, Java with pepper, clove, and muskaat 1785 – Continental Congress convenes in New York City 1873 – The first livestock market newspaper published, in Drover’s Journal, Chicago 1879 – Zulu war against British...

January 8th

1675 – New York Fishing Company becomes the first American commercial corporation chartered 1790 – President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City. The annual message was delivered in person until 1801, when Thomas Jefferson discontinued the practice because it appeared too similar to a monarch making a...
Lewis and Clark Expedition 150 anniversary issue

Today in History

  1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia 1610 – Galileo discovers the first of four Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Although Jupiter has at least sixty-seven moons, these four, known as the Galilean moons, are extremely large. Ganymede, the largest, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury 1714 – Typewriter...

December 16th

1631 – Mount Vesuvious erupts, destroys six villages and takes four-thousand lives 1707 – Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan 1773 – The Boston Tea Party is hosted by the Sons of Liberty to protest the newest form of taxation without representation, the Tea Act. After the rebellion, the British Parliament passed the...
The Brothers Grimm