Voting is a responsibility, not a choice as a citizen of this country. I will vote for the person who has proven to be able to govern the United States of America and I will vote for the party which has governed to make women more equal citizens and has tried to govern for all...
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth and last in a series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series has looked at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on the Lower East Side.) In the recent...
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria. 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash. 1890 – City and South London Railway: London’s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William...
Square in Florence with a white high water mark of the 1966 flood. The marker is about 13 ft high.
Dear Friends of Ruth, Please be informed that a Memorial/Tribute has been scheduled to honor the memory of our dear friend and neighbor, Ruth Ohman. Date: Friday, November 18th, 2016 Time: 12:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Place: BPCP Community Room 6 River Terrace Everyone please feel free to step up and speak a few words...
To the editor: The new bridge would involve going way out of my way to get the the Rector St 1 and R stations vs the existing one which provides much more direct access. I suppose the alternative for me and others is (go somewhat out of my way) to cross at Albany St intersection....
The bridge, shown here in an architect's rendering, will be a 230-foot long lenticular truss, stretching diagonally across the junction of West and West Thames Streets, from the southwest to the northeast corners of the intersection.
A venerable publishing firm whose history is bound up with that of Lower Manhattan is asking for some acknowledgement (in the form of a street corner renaming), but Community Board 1 (CB1) is saying, “not so fast.” HarperCollins Publishers began life as J. & J. Harper in 1817, when brothers James and John (having been...
Pouty Plutocrats: A group portrait of the Harper brothers (Fletcher, onetime New York City Mayor James, John, and Joseph) by pioneering American photographer Matthew Brady, displaying the obligatory somber miens that were considered becoming among nineteenth century magnates.
