Month: March 2016

Today in History

837 – 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1807 – The U.S. Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.” 1814 – Ludwig von Beethoven’s 8th Symphony in F premieres 1854 – Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt...
Rembrandt's Girl in a Frame

Letters to the Editor

Governor Cuomo To the Editor: BPCA employees are just the tip of the iceberg of people left out of the Governor’s plan. Although he is getting a lot of PR out of pushing for a $15 minimum wage, yet has not put money in the budget to fund this increase for nonprofit agencies with whom...

Contractual Obligations

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has doubled the dollar value of contracts that requires approval from its directors, but the board rejected a request by the Authority’s management team to increase this threshold, in some cases, to more than three times its original amount. At the January 27 meeting of the Authority’s board, BPCA...

Today in History

Isabella Goodwin 1562 – In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. 1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. 1803 – Ohio became the 17th U.S. state. 1867 – Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state. 1869 – Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time 1872 – Yellowstone becomes the first national park 1907 – In New York, the Salvation Army opened an...

Letters to the Editor

Dear Broadsheet Editor,     Congratulations on your excellent investigative journalism.  The day after the story of diligent reporters (“Spotlight”) netted the best picture Oscar, it is gratifying to see that the Broadsheet does all it can to expose the grubby details of the sweetheart deal that the BPCA gave Allied Barton. As a neighbor of the BPC, who has...

Vocation and Visitation

The Downtown Alliance’s annual real estate review indicates that the year just ended was remarkable in two respects: more people now work in the square mile at the bottom of Manhattan than at any time since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and more people visited here than ever before. The jobs numbers show...
Numbing Numbers: 60,000 residents, 53,000 students, 230,000 workers and 14 million tourists all competed for sidewalk space in Lower Manhattan in 2015, according to a new report from the Downtown Alliance.