The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will meet this evening (Wednesday, October 5) to consider a resolution opposing the recent initiative by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to formulate options for reconfiguring South End Avenue. All interested members of the public are invited to attend and offer their opinions at...
Ninfa Segarra, chair of CB1's Battery Park City Committee' invites public input on an initiative to revamp South End Avenue. At tonight's meeting; the public are also asked to weigh in, before the Committee votes on a resolution about this plan.
23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang’an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later. 1302 – A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the Byzantine-Venetian War (1296-1302). 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of...
Being a writer is tough and being a parent and a writer is twice as tough. Tenacity, as well as perfecting the balancing act that comes into play while raising kids and finding the time and place to write, is a challenge many writers face. Milda M. DeVoe, a mother of two children, started Lower...
Pen Parentis Founder M. M. De Voe presents the 2016-2017 Writing Fellowship for New Parents to Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan of Pittsburgh, PA (far right). Certificate and $1000 check presented by 2015-2016 Fellow Orli Van Mourik of Brooklyn who announced at the Salon she had just landed a literary agent!
What: Workshop- This meeting will focus on the waterfront from Montgomery Street to the Brooklyn Bridge When: Wednesday October 5, 2016 6:30-8:30 PM doors open at 6PM Where: YMCA/ Two Bridges Community Center 286 South Street Why: New York City is continuing to advance waterfront improvements to protect against coastal flooding and we need your...
What: Workshop- This meeting will focus on the waterfront from Montgomery Street to the Brooklyn Bridge When: Wednesday October 5, 2016 6:30-8:30 PM doors open at 6PM Where: YMCA/ Two Bridges Community Center 286 South Street Why: New York City is continuing to advance waterfront improvements to protect against coastal flooding and we need your...
Pier 40, a recreational facility that youth athletic leagues serving Lower Manhattan depend upon is slowing falling into the Hudson River, but nobody knows exactly how much it will cost to repair. And that unanswered question makes it impossible to know whether a proposed air-rights deal that will allow real estate developers to build a...
Pier 40, which serves as a vital recreational facility for local youth sports leagues, is in danger of falling into the Hudson River - but could be bailed out by a plan to redevelop the St. John's Terminal building (visible behind the pier).