Month: May 2016

Not So Alone in Trinity Churchyard

He’s cut quite the figure for more than a century, standing alone in Trinity churchyard. Hamilton-just steps away-is who everyone seems to come for, but then are all drawn to the large bronze looming to the left. All lawyer robe and courtroom wig turned away to face Broadway. Not a hint of flesh from here-even...

Attention All Church-Goers

In a series of Town Hall meetings that began in April and will continue on May 11, 19 and 25, Lisa Ecklund-Flores, founder of the Church Street School for Music and Art, is leading a community dialog about what the non-profit Tribeca institution can become in the years ahead. The public is invited to hear...
Lisa Ecklund-Flores with board members and supporters of Church Street School for Music and Art at a recent fundraising event

Today in History

28 BCE – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci  leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas...
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVl

Advice, If Not Consent

Bob Townley, the founder and executive director of Manhattan Youth, as well as a member of Community Board 1 (CB1), is proposing that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) form advisory council of stakeholders and residents to foster a better relationship with the community. At its monthly meeting on April 26, the board discussed a...
Bob Townley, the founder and executive director of Manhattan Youth, who has also served on the Hudson River Park Trust Advisory Council, is proposing the creation of a similar consultative body to help guide the Battery Park City Authority.

Letters

To the editor: It (“City Council Hears Testimony On Water Street Arcade Proposal” May 5BroadsheetDAILY) sounds like nothing has stopped the land barons from converting their arcades except a charitable handout or a $$,$$$,$$$ present from the city. Massive increase in residency and overwhelming foot traffic from tourists seem not to be enough incentive for...

Today in History

1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire 1494 – On second voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 1780 – Second oldest learned society in US (American Academy of Arts & Sciences) forms in Boston 1809 – Mary Kies is first woman issued a US patent  for a ‘weaving straw’ 1855 – NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used...
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman aka Nellie Bly