Month: February 2016

Little Kubricks

Seven students from Manhattan’s Youth’s film program have received the 2015 Peacemaker Champion Award from the PLURAL+ youth video festival, which is operated by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC). PLURAL+ selected 25 videos, out of more than 240 submissions from 59 countries worldwide, to receive the Peacemaker Champion Award. The Manhattan Youth entry...

Today in History February 4

211 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He is famously said to have given the advice to Caracalla and Geta, his quarrelling sons: “Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, and scorn all other men” and left the empire in their control. By the end of...
The Severan Tondo, depicting Septimius Severus, his wife Julia Domna, Caracalla, and the obliterated image of Geta

LETTERS: Many Voices, One Refrain

To Battery Park City Residents: Renters & Condo Owners, and other Stakeholders: As you may be aware serious concerns have been raised about recent decisions of the Battery Park City Authority Board and how they are adversely effecting our neighborhood. Yesterday’s BroadsheetDAILY article, Many Voices, One Refrain, read in conjunction with the January 19, 2016...
BPCA chair and CEO Dennis Mehiel recounts a recent call from the office of Governor Andrew Cuomo, asking about appointments to the Authority's board

A Bridge That Will Be Raised, Rather Than Razed

In this case, the committee had two members. Master bridge builder Othmar Ammann (who also gave New York the George Washington Bridge; the Triborough Bridge, recently renamed for Robert F. Kennedy; the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge) partnered with the original Manhattan starchitect, Cass Gilbert (creator of the Woolworth...

Annual Art Exhibit Opens

The annual art exhibit presented by the Battery Park City Parks opened on Sunday at the gallery in their headquarters. Scores of watercolors, charcoal and pen drawings were on display, the fruit of labor from dozens of students who participated in the free weekly art classes offered May through October. Inspired by the natural beautiful...

Today in History: February 3

1690 – First paper money in America issued in the colony of Massachusetts 1740 – Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily 1882 – Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys his world famous elephant, Jumbo. Jumbo was born in East Africa in late 1960, was captured two years later and brought...
Cover of October 1920 issue of Popular Science, by Norman Rockwell