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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...

When Is a Resident Not a Resident?

A bill that would require Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of the seven seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has passed the New York State Assembly with near-unanimous support. On Tuesday, all 139 members of the lower house of the State legislature who were...

Bullets Fly on Battery Place

Gunfire erupted near the corner of Battery Place and Washington Street shortly after local schools had let out on Monday afternoon. At least one innocent bystander, a woman in her 30s whose name has not been released, was wounded when a stray bullet struck her in the ankle. A second man sustained a gunshot wound...

Truths That Are Not Quite Self-Evident

Community Board 1 (CB1) has endorsed a bill now under consideration in the State Senate that would require Governor to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). Currently, only one of that agency’s seven board seats is held by a resident of the community, Martha Gallo. At the...
Ninfa Segarra: "The BPCA is our government. So we're asking for representation in our government. Because we're not really governed by the City Council or the Mayor. We're governed by BPCA in our day-to-day lives."

Holding Back the Tide

At its Wednesday board meeting, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) shared the preliminary findings of its two-year resiliency study, conducted by consulting firm Parsons Transportation, as part of an effort to formulate plans that will make the community more resistant to future extreme weather events, such as 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, which flooded much of...
Gwen Dawson, the Battery Park City Authority's vice president for real property: "We are projecting in the future a more severe storm event, with inundation throughout Battery Park City."