1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade. 1651 – Great earthquake at Cuzco, Peru 1850 – US population hits 23,191,876 1861 – Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans 1870 – First black…
Month: March 2017
LETTERS ~ re: Your Word Is Their Bond
What an eye-opener this article is!! I have asked the BPCA repeatedly for better information about the bonds that underpin our land, but it takes a bond rating company to elucidate how our bonds really work. So, the reversion of our homes to NY State and to the Bondholders is ultimately why our bonds are…
Where Little Cable Cars May Someday Climb Halfway to the Stars
The backers of the proposed East River Skyway are expanding their plan to include a phase that would connect Battery Park with Governors Island, and Red Hook, Brooklyn. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Levy, president of the CityRealty website, who first proposed in mid-2016 to build a cablecar network with large gondolas that…
March 30
1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification. 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States. 1841 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens. 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford…
A Grand Alliance
The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), which oversees the operation of the City’s Business Improvements Districts (BIDs), has completed a report that sheds light on the work of the Downtown Alliance, which covers Lower Manhattan, roughly between between City Hall and the Battery, from the East River to West Street. A…
March 29
502 – King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm’s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV…