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Fighting to Save the Joys of Music and Art

In all of Lower Manhattan, there is probably no one more committed to awakening young children to the potential of music and art than Lisa Ecklund-Flores. When Church Street School for Music and Art opened in 1990, Tribeca was just beginning its transformation from a sleepy spice and food warehouse district occupied by artists and...
Winsome Brown leads the large crowd of supporters at Michael Dorf's City Winery raising funds for Church Street School

Community Emergency Response Team

On December 20, the BPC CERT team, held their graduation event after completion of a 16-week training course. The CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) was formed after September 11th, in partnership with FDNY, NYPD, NYC Emergency Management to train neighborhood volunteers to render assistance in all types of disasters, manmade and natural. Their mission is...
Peter Morici CERT senior instructor, with CERT instructor Joe Gibney, NYPD's First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker and Maureen Koetz, formerly a senior executive in the Pentagon who spoke at the ceremony

Demography In Action: The Kids Are All Right

(Editor’s Note: This is part an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by looking at statistics available from the Data2Go.NYC website, by Measure of America — a nonpartisan, non-profit project of the Brooklyn-based Social Science Research Council. This installment focuses on statistics about young people.) If you were poised to...

The Cost of Living in Manhattan

Dear Editor , This letter is a response to your comprehensive, powerful story about the escalating cost of living in an apartment that is making it economically possible for only the wealthy or low income (public housing) residents to live in Manhattan. Another possible niche for affordable, owned housing could be built (or converted?) in...

December 6

963 – Leo VIII elected Pope 1060 – Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1631 – First predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed 1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1825 – Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory 1862 – Pres Lincoln...
Gerald Ford

December 5

771 – Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman. 1456 – Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die 1492 – Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti) 1766 – London auctioneers Christie’s hold their first sale 1792 – George Washington re-elected  president 1876 – Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295,...
O. J. Simpson