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How to Design a Storm-Proof Public Space

The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing for a more active role in the upcoming process to reconfigure Wagner Park so that it will be better able to withstand future extreme weather events. Committee chair Ninfa Segarra opened the discussion at the panel’s October 25 meeting, saying, “a major project...
Wagner Park in Battery Park City
Wagner Park, at Battery Park City's southern tip, is the focus of a study by the BPCA, which seeks to devise measure that will make the park resilient against future extreme weather events.

How Lower Manhattan Voted: The Lower East Side

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and last in a series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series has looked at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on the Lower East Side.) In the recent...

Proposed Patronym Put on Hold

A venerable publishing firm whose history is bound up with that of Lower Manhattan is asking for some acknowledgement (in the form of a street corner renaming), but Community Board 1 (CB1) is saying, “not so fast.” HarperCollins Publishers began life as J. & J. Harper in 1817, when brothers James and John (having been...
Pouty Plutocrats: A group portrait of the Harper brothers (Fletcher, onetime New York City Mayor James, John, and Joseph) by pioneering American photographer Matthew Brady, displaying the obligatory somber miens that were considered becoming among nineteenth century magnates.

The Presidential Election Who & Why

In the Clinton vs Trump contest, you have seen every political dirty trick (demonizing lies, voter suppression) in the book by Republicans who historically are well-known for them and should speak for itself to a thinking person. If in power, Trump may evolve from a”rigged”paranoid/ “got all answers”megalomaniac to a narcissist psychopath like Hitler surrounded...

The Presidential Election Who & Why

In the Clinton vs Trump contest, you have seen every political dirty trick (demonizing lies, voter suppression) in the book by Republicans who historically are well-known for them and should speak for itself to a thinking person. If in power, Trump may evolve from a”rigged”paranoid/ “got all answers”megalomaniac to a narcissist psychopath like Hitler surrounded...

American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11

One of the lesser told stories of 9/11 is also one of the most inspirational. The new book American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 examines this impromptu response of mariners to the water’s edge and explores what we can learn from the mobilization of boats that rescued hundreds of thousands of people...
Evacution of Lower Manhattan on September 11th