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November 14, 2016

Demography In Action: Crime in Lower Manhattan

(Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by looking at data and statistics available from the City’s Data2Go.NYC website. This installment focuses on crime.) Here’s a new flash that will shock no one: Violent crime is vanishingly rare in Lower Manhattan. Within Community...
Almost every Category of crime is a rarity in Lower Manhattan, save for one.
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November 11, 2016

In Our Defense

For all its embrace of diversity, there is one population that is vanishingly scarce in Lower Manhattan: active duty U.S. military personnel. “There are probably about five of us,” reflects the U.S. Army’s Lieutenant Colonel Marci Miller, who lives in Battery Park City. “I know there are a few Coast Guard officers on active duty,...
Army Lieutenant Colonel Marci Miller and her daughter Jordan
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November 10, 2016

RiverWatch Red Hook Water Stories

PortSide NewYork, is a community of people on one part of New York harbor’s waterfront, and the dream of one woman, Carolina Salguero to keep local maritime history alive. She does that through her work on the Mary A. Whalen, a small oil tanker built and launched in Camden, New Jersey in 1938 for Ira...
Erie Basin, Red Hook c.1900, "Boating at Sunset" by Jenny Young Chandler, courtesy of the Henry Ford Museum
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November 10, 2016

An Aversion to Upgrading the Avenue

The managing boards of a dozen condominium buildings in Battery Park City have now passed resolutions calling upon the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to halt its ongoing initiative to consider a possible redesign of South End Avenue. The scope of this project was recently narrowed, when the BPCA announced that it was no longer...
South End Avenue plan
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November 9, 2016

Advice and Dissent

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Wednesday, November 9), from 6:00 to 7:30 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...
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November 9, 2016

National Thoughts

The old man used to say, “facing a disaster with people who are at their best in the worst of times is far better than sitting down to a feast with people who are at their worst in the best of times.” If we are now to be led by somebody who evinces every sign...
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