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Letters

Dear Editor, Ron Dowd is correct in his observation of the complete disregard that the Safety Ambassadors show to the regulations of Battery Park City and the safety of children and small animals. As every resident here is aware, as were the PEP officers, the upper deck of the esplanade is NOT for bicycles. I...

Farewell My Pooch

She was a lifelong Gateway resident. So you’ve probably seen her around: soft white coat with tawny markings, including a patch of dark fur around one eye; happy disposition accentuated by a pink tongued smile and until she was slowed by age and a limp, a hop in her step and a perpetual wag in...
Audrey

June 2

1835 – PT Barnum and his circus begin first tour of US 1851 – First alcohol prohibition law enacted in Maine 1873 – Construction begins on San Francisco’s Clay St for world’s first cable railroad 1875 – Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission 1886 – Grover Cleveland is first to wed during his presidency. He was born Stephen Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New...
Grover Cleveland's White House wedding

May 27

1679 – Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest & imprisonment) passes in England 1692 – Court of Oyer and Terminer established by Governor of Massachusetts to hear accussations of witchcraft 1703 – St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great 1896 – Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255 & leaving thousands homeless 1905 – Japanese...
1930: The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

Schilling Opens on Washington Street

The lower sections of Washington Street and Greenwich Street below the World Trade Center have long been ignored. On these streets was once a neighborhood of immigrants finding the American dream, but a generation or two later were displaced by the construction of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. And on September 11th, these streets were where...
Michelin-starred chef Eduard Frauneder at his new bistro Schilling

Joining the Assembly Line

Just weeks after the April special election that brought Alice Cancel to the New York State Assembly, the ranks of candidates vying for the Democratic nomination replace her have grown by one. Paul Newell, a Lower Eastside resident with a long history of local activism, declared his candidacy on Sunday afternoon at rally in Straus...
Assembly candidate Paul Newell: “The costs of corruption are not a few million dollars in bribes, or somebody’s son’s no-show job. The costs of corruption are higher rents, higher taxes, overcrowded classrooms, and crumbling subways.”