Month: February 2017

Seeking Consultation on the Concourse

City Council member Margaret Chin is echoing calls by the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 for a greater voice in planning any changes to the streetscape of South End Avenue. In a January 25 letter to Polly Trottenberg, commissioner of the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT), Ms. Chin urges the City, “not...
City Council member Margaret Chin wants the Battery Park City Authority to include Community Board 1 in decisions about the future of South End Avenue.

February 15

1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1870 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded...
Meteor over Russia in 2013

Keeping Pace

Lower Manhattan’s hometown college, Pace University, will soon have new leadership and an upgraded campus, to go along with its burgeoning reputation. The new hand on the rudder will belong to Marvin Krislov, a lawyer, educator, and former Rhodes Scholar who has served for the past decade are president of Oberlin College, in Ohio —...
Among the projects Mr. Krislov will oversee is the ongoing expansion and renovation of Pace’s Downtown campus, which will soon begin a $190-million rehabilitation.
1014 – Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor 1076 – Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Roman Emperor Henry IV 1130 – Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II 1803 – Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void. 1849 – In...
Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell

Mapping Affluence in Lower Manhattan

A new demographic report that parses all of New York City by its 50 wealthiest zip codes draws some surprising conclusions about Lower Manhattan. The first is that, for all its conspicuous affluence, the southern tip of New York County barely makes the Top Ten List, nor does it figure very prominently elsewhere in the...
Lower Manhattan's young, affluent, and educated population barely makes the list of the City's most prosperous communities, a new report finds -- but they are among the most interesting demographic cohorts anywhere in the five boroughs.
Konstantin Bokov has demonstrated an unusual and peculiar insight into the mixed-up, contradictory world we live in right now, even though many of the works in this exhibit were created more than a decade ago. Growing up in USSR-dominated Ukraine, and unable to show his art in that political climate, he sought the freedom associated...
Konstantin Bokov 'Police Line'