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LETTERS

August 23, 2016 By

To the editor: I have been following with interest the series of letters regarding our ongoing South End Avenue / West Thames Street Study, and encourage readers to keep the input coming. The Battery Park City community is never wanting for ideas about how to make the neighborhood even better, and this has been no […]

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TO DARE THE SEA

August 23, 2016 By

In the tradition of Hell and High Water epic voyages and how I was fortunate enough to meet the spesielle (special) Dr. Stein Hoff. In 2016 able seaman Stein Hoff rowed the same Atlantic route to honor his heroes, George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen, that did it in 1896. Pull that oar How many people […]

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Letters

August 23, 2016 By

Dear Editor Guards are stationed on the plaza outside the Wintergarden and have been harassing bicyclists and telling us that bicycle riding is not permitted in the plaza. I remember that Brookfield tried this a few years ago and had to stop. One guard ordered me off my bike and when I refused and replied […]

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Pair of Old Buildings Become Lower Manhattan’s Newest Landmarks

August 23, 2016 By

Tribeca has two new landmarks: a Irish linen merchant’s commercial palace and a former police station that later served as hospital and firehouse, before finding subsequent life as a wine store and then a nail salon. Both were declared legally protected buildings by the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission at the end of June. The first […]

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Pair of Old Buildings Become Lower Manhattan's Newest Landmarks

August 23, 2016 By

Tribeca has two new landmarks: a Irish linen merchant’s commercial palace and a former police station that later served as hospital and firehouse, before finding subsequent life as a wine store and then a nail salon. Both were declared legally protected buildings by the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission at the end of June. The first […]

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This Week in History

August 8, 2016 By

August 8, 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage. August 8, 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. August 9, 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. August 9, 1974 – As a direct result of the […]

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