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February 28. Today in History

202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. 1784 – John Wesley charters the Methodist Church. 1827 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. 1849 – Regular...
February 28, 1953: James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA

Q&A with BPCA

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Tuesday, November 14), from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community, and...

Get Rich or Get Out

A leading housing advocacy organization has completed an exhaustive look at threats to affordability in every community in the five boroughs, and has found that Lower Manhattan ranks among the ten most at-risk neighborhoods, as measured by two key metrics. The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), an umbrella organization of 100 non-profit affordable...
Get Rich or Get Out

May 31

455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France. 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. 1790 – The United...
Henry Ford and his son Edsel drive the 15 millionth Model T off the assembly line, the last Model T ever created, in 1927.

Five Years Later, and Still No Plan

Anthony Notaro, the chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), has issued a candid warning that area residents may wish to keep in mind heading into tomorrow night’s public meeting of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) project. At the May 2 meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee, during a discussion of measures planned by...