At the November 17 meeting of the School Overcrowding Task Force, Eric Greenleaf, a Tribeca parent who has served for almost a decade on the panel, sounded a dire demographic warning. Amid ongoing jubilation about plans (announced in earlier this year) to open a new public elementary school on Trinity Place, in the Financial District,...
School Overcrowding Task Force member Eric Greenleaf: Students who grow up in apartments now being built in Lower Manhattan, "will not be in the position of waiting for the new Trinity Place school to open. They will be in the position of having no school at all. No school for them has been funded, or is even currently planned."
Tomorrow night (Tuesday, December 6), the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will discuss plans by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to redesign Wagner Park to strengthen it against future storm surges. The Committee will also hear a presentation by the design team from Perkins Eastman, the consulting firm hired by...
This image shows the possible location of flood barriers in Wagner Park (dotted red line), along with the positions of similar storm protection systems in Battery Park (solid red line at upper right) and along the Esplanade (solid red line at lower left). But while planning has begun for such a project in Wagner Park, no such plans have been announced for either of the adjoining areas.
Starting this weekend, Asphalt Green will be hosting a three-part series of Saturday cooking class for kids, aged five to nine years old, in partnership with Butter Beans, a group that provides school lunches and food education programs at 15 independent schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The Asphalt Green program will focus on the...
(Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series that will explore questions and answers of national and international significance raised at Senator Daniel Squadron’s recent Community Town Hall meeting. This installment focuses on the issue of global warming.) At the November 15 Community Town Hall meeting hosted by State Senator Daniel Squadron, a...
State Senator Daniel Squadron: "Whenever there's a government you're not happy with, or that gives you reason to doubt that it's acting constitutionally, lawfully, and within the values that we as a community and a nation share, we need to be ready for a crisis to occur."
Cetacean Peregrination: A whale in New York Harbor may be a good sign or an ill omen. On the positive side, marine mammals who deserted our waters generations ago (driven away by lethal levels of pollution) now occasionally stop by to check out the newly detoxified bay. On the darker end of the spectrum, whales...
The chair of the Youth and Education Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) is proposing that a seldom-used street in the Financial District, located at what will be the front door of a new public school, be turned into a pedestrian plaza. At the November 17 meeting of the School Overcrowding Task Force (a joint...
Tricia Joyce, chair of Community Board 1's Youth and Education Committee, and Paul Hovitz (vice chair of Community Board 1) make the case for a new pedestrian plaza in front of the elementary school that will soon be built on Trinity Place.
