238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors. 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire. 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, […]
Archives for March 22, 2017
Reading Time
Battery Park City Day Nursery is offering FREE Story Time while the BPC Public Library is undergoing renovations. Preschool Story Time (children ages 3 – 5 years) Tuesdays: March 28, April 4, April 11, April 25, May 2 at 4:00 pm Toddler Story Time (children ages 1 – 3 years) Wednesdays: March 29, April 5, […]
LETTERS BPC residents on the BPCA Board
Dear editor: I am glad that some important facts came out at CB1’s BPC committee meeting reported by The BroadsheetDAILY. Most significant, I think, is that with BPC having more residents than Roosevelt Island, there is no excuse not to draw Board Members exclusively from this community! We have an extremely talented and diverse population […]
Barrage of Criticism
One focus of the “Open Community Meeting” that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host tonight (Wednesday, March 22), from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant) will be the BPCA’s ongoing analysis of local resiliency, in preparation for measures to […]