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Radical Cheek
Subvertising Campaign Shocks the Conscience, But Not for Long
On Wednesday morning, two dozen cages fashioned from chain-link fencingappeared on sidewalks at strategic locations around Manhattan and Brooklyn. A pair of these were placed in Lower Manhattan: one on Centre Street, opposite the Municipal Building and close by the Brooklyn Bridge; the other about two blocks away, near the intersection of Broadway and Vesey Streets.
Each one contained a lifelike mannequin, the size of a small child, wrapped in a foil blanket, which bore a disturbing resemblance to a shroud. From around the edges of these blankets, locks of hair and smalls pair of shoes were visible. Concealed within every cage was also a rudimentary audio system that repeatedly played a track of a small child sobbing. This was interspersed with the sound of a heartbeat.
These installations together comprised a guerrilla art piece titled “#NoKidsInCages,” which was conceived, fabricated, and surreptitiously placed at carefully chosen points in the hours before sunrise. Among the collaborators on the project the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a non-profit that provides free and legal and social services to immigrant children, families, and refugees.
RAICES was assisted by an advertising agency, Badger and Winters, which is known for provocative, issued-oriented media campaigns. All of the locations for the cages were at heavily trafficked tourist sites (the Centre Street cage was near the pedestrian approach to the Brooklyn Bridge), or the offices of media companies (the cage Broadway and Vesey was in front of the headquarters of Refinery29, a digital media and entertainment company focused on young women). Locations elsewhere in Manhattan included the front doors of the New York Times and Fox News.
On the outside of each enclosure was a sign bearing a litany of disturbing facts: more than 3,000 small children have been separated from their parents while attempting to enter the United States illegally; they spend an average of 154 days apart from the mothers and fathers; six have died while in custody. (The soundtrack of weeping children, it turns out, was tape obtained by investigative reporting organization ProPublica of actual toddlers detained by the U.S. Border Patrol, crying out for their parents.)
As the morning rush hour got under way, the Police Department’s 911 call center received hundreds of notifications that crying children were trapped in metal enclosures around New York. Responding officers quickly determined that no actual child was in danger, but took significantly longer to figure out what to do with the Cages. Some were broken apart with crowbars and hacksaws. Others were lifted off the sidewalk by tow trucks.
The RAICES/Bader and Winters collaboration may mark a return to a tradition of New York street art that hovers somewhere between iconoclastic and seditious. Superficially, it resembles that maneuver that surprised the City by placing the “Fearless Girl” statue at Bowling Green in March, 2017. But that was done with the secret blessing of City Hall at the behest of a financial services conglomerate.
On another level, the Cages caper is more closely akin to the epic prank played by sculptor Arturo Di Modica in 1989, when he secretly (and illegally) deposited his bronze “Charging Bull” statue in front of the New York Stock Exchange in the middle of the night. As with the Cages, “Charging Bull” was initially seized and removed by police, although public support subsequently led to it being reinstalled (this time with official approval) at Bowling Green.
But there appears to be little likelihood that the Cages will welcomed back to New York’s streetscape. In this context, the piece perhaps belongs to a different New York tradition of street aesthetic, embodied by self-styled vandals such as Keith Haring and Banksy, whose art was meant to provoke and then to disappear.
Matthew Fenton
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Free Will
Shakespeare Downtown will stage an open-air production of “Hamlet” at Castle Clinton National Monument in the Battery, Thursday through Sunday (June 13 to 16), starting at 6:30 pm each night.
(The same schedule will repeat the following week, June 20 to 23.) Admission is free, on a first-come, first-served basis. Shows starts at 6:30 pm, but anyone wishing to attend should arrive by 6:00 pm, for the best chance of getting tickets. For more information, please browse: ShakespeareDowntown.org.
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CB1 Wants to Contravene Convene
Local Leaders Raise Concerns about Traffic and Crowding from Planned Events Venue at Brookfield
The owners of Brookfield Place, are planning to launch an events venue that will host up to 1,000 people at a time, which has sparked concerns about traffic and crowding from community leaders. At the June 5 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), Mark Kostic, Brookfield’s Vice President for Asset Management, explained that Convene, a firm that develops and markets meeting rooms, event venues and flexible workspaces (and is partially owned by Brookfield) will be taking over the 86,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Saks Fifth Avenue, at 225 Liberty Street. Matthew Fenton
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It’s a Grand Old Flag
Time for a rousing, old-fashioned parade.
On Friday, June 14, Lower Manhattan’s Flag Day parade begins at 12pm at City Hall Park, marches down Broadway and passes the grandstand at Fraunces Tavern, at the intersection of Broad and Pearl Street.
Join school bands, local dignitaries, veteran groups and others, all celebrating the stars and stripes. Enjoy $1 admission to the Fraunces Tavern Museum on this special day.
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Brig Brouhaha
Brewer Hosts Town Hall Meeting on de Blasio Jail Plan
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosts a Town Hall meeting to give constituents a chance to advise her about whether to support or oppose the plan by Mayor Bill de Blasio to build a new, 1.2 million-square-foot jail complex on White Street, slated to rise 45 stories and house more than 1,400 prisoners.
The City’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) entails six steps for any proposed use of publicly owned land.
Matthew Fenton
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A Cenotaph for the Esplanade
Cuomo Announces List of Possible Locations in Battery Park City for Hurricane Maria Memorial
At Sunday’s Puerto Rican Day Parade, Governor Andrew Cuomoannounced that his administration is pushing ahead with plans for a memorial to Hurricane Maria — the cataclysmic storm that claimed more than 3,000 lives in Puerto Rico in September, 2017 — which will be located in Battery Park City.
Mr. Cuomo’s office also announced Sunday that his administration has narrowed the potential sites for such a memorial within Battery Park City down to six possibilities.
Matthew Fenton
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Edible Art
New Installation at World Trade Center Cultivates Symbols of Remembrance and Renewal
A bit of wisdom often attributed to Confucius holds that, “if your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.”
By this yardstick, Lower Manhattan, where half a dozen high-performing schools have opened in recent years, has the century plan covered, and is doing reasonably well in the decennial stakes, with hundreds of trees flourishing along the Esplanade, in the Battery, and around the World Trade Center campus. But Downtown has been woefully deficient on a per-annum basis — until now.
On Thursday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (which manages the World Trade Center complex) unveiled Rice Paddy — a living, growing installation that will incubate five varieties of rice between now and the Harvest Moon Festival in late September, when dozens of chefs will gather at the site to create unique, original dishes designed to be an homage to rice.
Matthew Fenton
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The Broadsheet June 4-17
In Lobbies Now
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Triangle Trade
Tribeca Traffic Island Remains Forlorn,
Despite Developer Promises in Exchange for Zoning Variance
Community Board 1 is trying to hold a developer to a bargain made five years ago, but never memorialized in writing. The deal committed builder DDG, which is erecting a large new residential and retail structure on a tiny former parking lot in Tribeca, to refurbish a nearby traffic island into a small park.To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Not Loud, But Still Proud
Battery Park City Parks will host a celebration of World Pride Month on Saturday, June 15, in Wagner Park (from 7:00 to 10:00 pm) with a Silent Disco Pride Party. Participants are invited to dance as silent beats are pumped through light-up headphones. Admission and headphones are free, but a refundable deposit is required.
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Brewer, Chin, and Community Groups Tell Mayor: See You in Court
Borough President and City Council Member Hold Rally to Underscore Objections to Planned Development at Two Bridges
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council Margaret Chin held a rally outside the Municipal Building to build support for their ongoing lawsuit against the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, over City Hall’s plans to erect a string of super-tall towers along the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan.
Matthew Fenton
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Today’s Calendar
Thursday June 13
8AM
Sunrise Yoga
Battery Park City Parks
Rise and shine to begin your morning with an outdoor yoga class that will help align your chakras and invigorate your day. Instructors focus on movements meant to enhance posture alignment and increase flexibility and balance. All levels welcome. Bringing your own mat is encouraged, as provided accessories are first come, first served. Wagner Park. FREE
1PM
Tour the Battery
The Battery Conservancy
Learn about Battery Park’s rich history, many important landmarks and monuments,the Seaglass Carousel and much more. Meet at 12:50 p.m. at the Netherland Memorial Flagpole located at the entrance to the park near the intersection of Broadway, Battery Place, and State street. It is across State Street from Bowling Green.
1PM
Fraunces Tavern Museum Guided Tour
Sixty minute guided tour of Fraunces Tavern Museum.
54 Pearl Street.Free with admission ($4, $7)
4PM
Harvest Moon Summer Reading Kick-Off
New York Public Library
Native storytellers share some of their favorite stories about colors, animal spirits, and family in this collection of Native American Indian tales. This program can be facilitated in Spanish if requested. Best for ages 4 to 10 years old. Presented by Urbans Stages. Battery Park City branch of the New York Public Library. 175 North End Avenue. FREE
5PM
Mari Meade Dance Collective
Battery Park City Parks
The Mari Meade Dance Collective takes its inspiration from everyday interactions and our urban surroundings. The collective uses quirky movements and dynamic body work to create physical narratives of the human experience told in a series of contemporary dance vignettes. Irish Hunger Memorial.
6PM
Community Board 1 Landmarks & Preservation Committee
Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
AGENDA
1) 177 Hudson Street, removal of concrete covering sidewalk glass light vault covers on Hudson and Vestry Streets and new construction of concrete sidewalk – Resolution
2) 88 Franklin Street, application for glass roof installation – Resolution
3) 56 Beaver Street, application for removal and replacement of existing aluminum windows – Resolution
4) 84 South Street, application for NYC Parks Department Concession – Resolution (Postponed until July)
7PM
BPC Running Club
Battery Park City Parks
Jog the 2.4 miles down and back along the Battery Parks City Esplanade. Guided with warm-up and cool-down and a favorable pace for all participants. Meet inside the Community Center at Stuyvesant High School at 345 Chambers Street. FREE
8PM
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion
Gibney
Significant Others: Dances for Family, Friends & Lovers, by Boston-based Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion, showcases the company and guest choreographers in a series of dances about our nuanced relationships over time. With references that weave in and out of history, starting with Stonewall and ping-ponging through the decades to present day, we see family and those closest to us shift and change, as we do as well-as if imagining our life’s relationships unfolding in some postmodern cabaret. 280 Broadway $15-20
8PM
TimesTalks: Jonas Brothers and Ryan Tedder
Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Spend an evening with Ryan Tedder, the Grammy award winning singer, songwriter, producer and founder of the multi-platinum selling band OneRepublic, in conversation with the Jonas Brothers (Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas). Together they will discuss their chance meeting, creative collaboration, and musical journey. 199 Chambers Street. $90
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Letters
To the editor,
I really appreciate Gail Brewer and Margaret Chin for standing up for the people of my community. We are hard working people that don’t deserve to be crunched out by high rise buildings that no one will be able to afford to live in.
Don’t we deserve space, sunlights and a say as to what our community should look like?
Patricia Thomas
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To the Editor,
Since the GPTA Rally for Rent Stabilization ended abruptly when the skies opened up, I did not get the chance to express my gratitude to many and to convey some important information.
On behalf of GPTA and all of Gateway, I want to express our sincere gratitude to Congressman Nadler, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and Council Member Margaret Chin for joining us at the rally and standing with us in solidarity (and in the rain).
I would also like to acknowledge the GPTA Board. We all we are all so fortunate to have an Executive Committee with vast knowledge and expertise working for us…
1stVP- Robin Forst, Secretary- Jeff Galloway. Treasurer- Karlene Wiese (who has served longer than anyone in the history of GPTA). We are also so fortunate to have Board members with a variety of talents and strengths and most of all commitment….Honey Berk, Sarah Cassell, Audrey Comisky, Larry Emert, Pat Gray, Howard Grossman, Bruce Katz, Steve Kessler and Ninfa Segarra.
Without the help of the Battery Park City Authority, BJ Jones, Eric Munson, Nick Sbordone, Nidia Reeder, and the wonderful staff at BPCParks, this rally would not have been possible. Thank you.
As for next steps, GPTA urges you to STAY ENGAGED!
If you are not already a member, join GPTA (gpta.org), follow us on Twitter and Facebook, write letters, make calls, attend meetings of CB1 and
make your voice heard.
If you want to stay up-to-date on what is happening, please take a moment and email the words, “I’M IN” to stabilization@gpta.org. We will keep you informed of any updates and let you know what you can do to help.
At Sunday’s rally, there was a sign on the stage which read “We built this (BP)City.” Like many of you, I have lived in Gateway for almost 30 years and I know that it is and has always been the anchor of Battery Park City.
We believe that Stabilization = Community and there is no other community quite like our Gateway community. The Rent Stabilization Agreement must be preserved and extended for all. I think we can agree, living in Gateway is like living in a small town. And in my opinion, it is the best small town in the Big Apple.
Thank you all… let’s keep up the fight!!!
Rosalie Joseph
President, GPTA
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To the Editor:
The article, “Pupil Protection,” published April 1, 2019, notes the unfortunate shortage of School Crossing Guards (SCGs) in our area, especially at and around PS89 in Battery Park City. It’s been two months since the article appeared, and there seem to still be no “permanent” crossing guards for PS89.
As a parent, every day I see the dangers to our kids posed by irresponsible drivers creeping into crosswalks at red lights, blocking crosswalks with their vehicles, out-of-state cars illegally turning right-on-red, and others speeding to make green or yellow lights; that’s in addition to equally irresponsible bicycle riders heading the wrong way on streets, careening through red lights, riding on sidewalks, and speeding recklessly along the West Street bikeway. I would love to see multiple SCGs posted at the intersections around PS89 (and other schools). It would especially be nice to have local residents as crossing guards since they would have a familiarity with the neighborhood, and also have a more heightened and direct interest in its safety. For anyone interested, our NYPD Neighborhood Coordination Officers can be contacted with questions at 212-334-6462, or dinah.bodden@nypd.org (Officer Bodden) and arif.tasoren@nypd.org (Officer Tasoren). Also, there is an online registration at: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/civilians/school-crossing-guard.page.
Sincerely,
Ron Dowd
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Today in History
Thursday June 13
313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia.
1381 – The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.
1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.
1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade in New York City.
1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
1955 – Mir mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.
1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the farthest planet from the Sun at the time).
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2010 – A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
Births
823 – Charles the Bald, Roman emperor (d. 877)
839 – Charles the Fat, Roman emperor (d. 888)
1865 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1939)
1894 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (d. 1986)
1905 – Xian Xinghai, Chinese composer (d. 1945)
1943 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor and producer
1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Deaths
1784 – Henry Middleton, American farmer and politician, 2nd President of the Continental Congress (b. 1717)
2008 – Tim Russert, American journalist and lawyer (b. 1950)
Edited from various internet sources
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‘A Thumb in the Eye’
Local Leaders Don’t Want One Broadway to Get Any Bigger
Community Board 1 (CB1) is resisting plans to add two floors to a landmarked building in the Financial District. In a resolution laced with unusually harsh language, enacted at its May 28 meeting, the Board called upon the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) — which can veto alterations to legally protected historic structures — to reject a proposal by the building’s owner, Midtown Equities, to build a glass pavilion on top of One Broadway (also known as the International Mercantile Marine Company Building), located at the corner of Broadway and Battery Place, directly adjacent to Bowling Green. The resolution summarizes the developer’s proposal with the words, “to distill the very convoluted design’s description, and despite all the narrative hoopla, it is really a preposterous glass box with a mansard surround.” Matthew Fenton
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Greater Goods and Lessor Evils
Gateway Affordability Rally Draws Large Crowd; Multiple Elected Officials Pledge Support
Hundreds of residents of Gateway Plaza braved ominous weather to attend a tenants’ rally along the Esplanade on Sunday evening, and hear a succession of elected officials pledge their support to the campaign for extended and expanded affordability protections at Battery Park City’s largest apartment complex. The event was organized and hosted by the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association(GPTA), which represents the 1,700-plus households in the community’s first residential development. To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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EYES TO THE SKY
June 10 – 23, 2019
Jupiter shines all night. Sun’s longest day
On June days and into mid-July we find the king of the sky, our Sun, present for over 15 hours. The summer solstice occurs on June 21 at 11:54am. Sunset on the solstice is 8:30pm. Study the illustration for more about summer solstice.
Judy Isacoff naturesturn.org
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Menhir for the Men and Women Who Came Here
A Stele for Survivors Honors Those Who Came Back, and Those Who Chose to Settle Downtown After the Dust Settled
On Thursday morning, the World Trade Center complex unveiled a new monument: the Memorial Glade, which honors people whose health (or whose lives) were taken from them not on September 11, 2001, but in the years that followed, because they were exposed to toxins in the aftermath of the Twin Towers’ collapse.
Matthew Fenton
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‘To Make the Wounded Whole…’
Chin Pushes to Renew Victim Compensation Fund
City Council member Margaret Chin is mobilizing local support for an effort at the federal level to restore funding and make permanent the Victim Compensation Fund, which offers financial awards to responders and survivors of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
This proposed federal measure would renew and make permanent the Victim Compensation Fund that was created by a 2011 law, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which was renewed in 2015.
Matthew Fenton
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Can Prized Community Facility Experience a Re-Berth?
A panel of elected officials and representatives from the Hudson River Park Trust(HRPT) will host a public forum this evening (Tuesday, May 28) to discuss proposed legislation that would enable commercial development at Pier 40, the massive former cruise ship terminal on the Hudson River waterfront, adjacent to Houston Street, which covers 14 acres and now houses athletic and recreational facilities.
Among the elected officials expected to attend tonight are U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, State Assembly member Deborah Glick, and State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman.
Matthew Fenton
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RiverWatch
Cruise Ships in the Harbor
Arrivals and Departures
Friday, June 14
Adventure of the Seas
Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 3:00 pm; Bermuda/Bahamas
Saturday, June 15
Anthem of the Seas
Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Bermuda
Norwegian Dawn
Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 3:30 pm;
Port Canaveral, FL/Bahamas
Pacific Princess
Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 8:30 pm
Transatlantic (Halifax, NS/Iceland/Faroe & Shetland Islands/Dover UK)
Sunday, June 16
Celebrity Summit
Inbound 7:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Bermuda/New England
Norwegian Escape
Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Bermuda
Many ships pass Lower Manhattan on their way to and from the Midtown Passenger Ship Terminal. Others may be seen on their way to or from piers in Brooklyn and Bayonne. Stated times, when appropriate, are for passing the Colgate clock in Jersey City, NJ, and are based on sighting histories, published schedules and intuition. They are also subject to tides, fog, winds, freak waves, hurricanes and the whims of upper management.
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On the Waterfront
Governors Island Trust Considers a Plan to Activate the Island’s Perimeter
Visions for the future of Governors Island are beginning to come into focus, as various constituencies emphasize their priorities. Earlier this month, theWaterfront Alliance unveiled its Maritime Activation Plan for the highly regarded island, which focuses on strategies for capitalizing on the unique waterfront assets located along the island’s 2.2-mile perimeter, while offering practical recommendations for meeting the challenges of being situated in the middle of New York Harbor. Matthew Fenton
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Anthem of the Seas Spins About
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Barging In
Local Elected Officials Say ‘Avast’ to Water-Borne Ads, But Company Claims City Is Out of Its Depth
The advertising barges that have become a pet bête noire for Lower Manhattan residents were the focus of a discussion at the April 23 meeting of Community Board 1 , where Paul Goldstein, who chairs that panel’s Waterfront, Parks, & Cultural Committee, offered an update, saying, “those floating billboards that you’ve seen on both the east and west sides — the good news is that the City is cracking down on them. Both the Mayor and the Council say they find it unacceptable. So they are imposing fines and enacting laws to restrict it.” To read more…
Matthew Fenton
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Shelter from the Storm
City Plans Temporary Flood Protection Measures for Downtown
The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is formulating short-term strategies to protect the South Street Seaport and the Financial District from sea-level rise and future extreme-weather events.
Matthew Fenton
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This Sand Is Your Sand, This Sand Is Our Sand…
Although Not Yet a Shore Thing, Proposal for Brooklyn Bridge Beach Takes a Step Forward
After multiple rounds of funding since 2013, the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Beach — a project supported by elected officials, community leaders, and the public — may be inching closer to reality.
The plan, backed by all of these constituencies, aims to create a crescent-shaped wedge of sand along the East River waterfront, just north of the South Street Seaport, where park-goers could wade knee deep in tide. If built, it would become the sole access point at which Lower Manhattan residents could step into the water that surrounds them, rather than merely looking at it.
Matthew Fenton
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Poor Quay?
Hudson River Park Trust Seeks Development on Pier 40
The Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT), in collaboration with local elected officials, is seeking to revise its enabling legislation to allow for commercial development at Pier 40.
“The major issue is that there need to be changes to the legislation that created the Hudson River Park, because Pier 40 is sinking,” explained Anthony Notaro, chair of Community Board 1 (CB1) at an April 26 meeting.
Matthew Fenton
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Cass Gilbert and the Evolution of the New York Skyscraper
by John Simko
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