Month: October 2016

How Lower Manhattan Voted: The Seaport and Civic Center

In the recent primary election that determined the Democratic nominee for the Assembly seat representing the 65th District in Lower Manhattan, the combined neighborhoods of the South Street Seaport and the Civic Center voted in a manner that was mostly at odds with the catchment as a whole. The September 13 primary race was won...

Trick or Treat

Battery Park City has many children who would love to Trick or Treat. If you are planning to be home for Halloween, on October 31, between 5:00 and 8:00 PM and will welcome children Trick or Treating to your door, please add your name and apartment to the Trick-or-Treat list on-line at http://www.bpcblockparty.com/halloween.

RiverWatch

Monday, October 17 Carnival Sunshine Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Canada Veendam Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 4:00 pm; repositioning to San Diego via Panama Canal Tuesday, October 18 Sirena Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 6:30 pm; New England/Canada/Bermuda Thursday, October 20 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Eastern Caribbean Ocean...
Disney Magic at the Passenger Ship Terminal

Today in History

1091 – London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London. 1558 – Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded. 1604 – Kepler’s Supernova: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus. 1610 – French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral....
A street scene in St. Giles the year before the Beer flood.

EYES TO THE SKY October 17 – 30, 2016

Without losing sleep, step out under pre-dawn skies to commune with planet Jupiter and the great star patterns normally seen in the evening skies of winter and early spring. During the final weeks of Eastern Daylight Time (which ends on November 6th), the sun rises after 7 o’clock, making for dark mornings charged with starlight...
A planet-laden panorama for week of October 17. Courtesy of SkyandTelescope.com

Street Fight

The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) passed a resolution at its October 5 meeting, calling upon the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to halt its ongoing initiative to consider a possible redesign of South end Avenue. The boards of six condominium apartment buildings have also enacted resolutions calling for a similar...