Month: March 2017

Surge Protection

At its March 22 Open Community Meeting, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) presented an updated version of its plans to fortify Wagner Park, at the community’s southern tip, from future extreme weather events. The area was the site of serious flooding during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. The two centerpieces of the plan are a large...
An architect's rendering of the new plan to provide for resiliency in Wagner Park, which will focus on barriers formed by a new, sloping lawn that rises to a new building, which follows the contour of Battery Place.

Earth To Sky: Paintings by Debra Drexler

Commuting between Hawaii and New York, Debra Drexler thrives on living at the edge of two oceans. Hawaii has a unique form of tropical light diffused through blazing skies, resplendent with colors so intense that they can seem almost synthetic. New York has its own urban pulse with twenty-four seven illumination, flashing the frenetic energy...
Drexler’s multi-layered, luminous, large-scale paintings expand the dialog around 21st Century abstraction through their bold compositions and dynamic mark-making.

March 28

AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. 193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. 364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor. 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm...

Letters

To the editor: Your BPC Bond article: (BroadsheetDAILY March 27) ‘Your Word is Their Bond’ 1. Additional reason why locals should be in control of the Board 2. Resale value of home-residents should decrease rapidly as 2069 approaches 3. Younger people will not move into BPC since they will have nothing to gain in the...

The Trump Interview

Upon learning that Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, and Shinzō Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, read Glenn Plaskin’s 1990 Playboy interview with Donald Trump, we asked for and received a comment from the author, a Lower Manhattan resident, president of the Gateway Tenants Association and celebrity interviewer. Over the years, as Entertainment reporter for...

Immobile Miss

After State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou held a rally and led fellow-female elected officials in co-signing a letter demanding that the City find a way to keep the “Fearless Girl” statue at Bowling Green, the sculpture has been given a one-year reprieve. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer hosted a joint...