Month: May 2016

Forst Exit: BPCA Purges Only Battery Park City Resident from Its Senior Staff

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has forced out its only senior executive who actually lives in the community, Robin Forst, according to multiple sources directly familiar with the situation. Ms. Forst has served as the BPCA’s vice president of external relations, a post that encompassed dealings with the community, other government agencies, and the...

Courageous or Crazy?

This Sunday, May 15th at 8am, Dr. Stein Hoff, will begin his attempt at rowing across the Atlantic, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen by Stanley Fine   It took an arduous search with a blueprint map in hand, in the “potter’s field” section of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery. But I finally found the...
George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen in their rowboat FOX

Department of Music

Join the Tribeca Chamber Players and pianist Peter Basquin on Sunday, May 15 at 2pm as they perform Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81 in a free presentation in the Great Hall at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center. Written in late 1887 – at a time when melody was king –...
Antonin Dvorak

Today in History

609 – Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church 1110 – Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1497 – Pope Alexander VI  excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence. He vehemently preached against the moral corruption of much of the clergy at the time, and his main opponent...
Winston Churchill

Squadron to Host Community Convention This Weekend

State Senator Daniel Squadron may be the polar opposite of what most people perceive about elected officials, in that he is more interested in listening than in talking. A case in point is his eighth annual Community Convention, which he will host on Sunday (May 15), at location at P.S. 124, on the Lower East...
Senator Daniel Squadron