The Downtown Alliance on Monday honored six Lower Manhattan civic leaders with its Exceptional Service Award, which recognizes local luminaries for their contributions to quality of life Downtown. This year’s recipients include the New York Police Department’s Deputy Inspector Mark Iocco and Sergeant Dennis Feldman, both assigned to the First Precinct, in Tribeca. NYPD Deputy...
When evening twilight deepens, Corvus the Crow takes flight, easily spotted in the south 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon in dark and moderately dark skies. To measure 10 degrees above the skyline, extend an arm at eye level and look out over your closed fist kept hovering above a spot where sky meets...
1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. It authorized in limited and defined circumstances the use of torture by the Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics. 1602 –...
Dear editor, A barge arrived in South Cove a week ago. Do you have any idea why it is there and what they are doing? More importantly, when will they leave? Evan Dillon —————————————————————————- Nicholas Sbordone, spokesperson for the Battery Park City Authority replies: Keeping 36 acres of parkland the jewel of Battery Park City...
On Thursday (May 18), Marshalls is slated to open a 65,000 square foot store in the former Verizon building, on the block bounded by Vesey, Washington, Barclay, and West Streets. The entrance to the new store will be at 206 Washington Street (the corner of Vesey and Washington). This appears to be a contrarian bet...
An automobile crash in the early hours of Thursday, May 11 occurred in the cul de sac of South End Avenue at Liberty Street in front of Brookfield Place and resulted in the death of Lena Pitu, 76 a cab driver. Police say she suffered a medical episode and collided with one of the barriers...