Month: May 2017

Liberty Community Gardens

Celebrating vivid spring flowers and seedlings full of promise, Liberty Community Gardeners gathered on April 29 for the first event of the season. Anne O’Neill, Director of Horticulture, Sustainability and Landscape Design, for Battery Park City Parks, dropped by in case anyone needed advice, and gardeners of all ages got busy. LCG’s 50+ garden plots...
Anne O'Neill, BPCPark's Director of Horticulture offers gardening advice to the members

St. Joseph Chapel

To the editor, I no longer live in BPC and am not a religious person, but when I watched Willie Geist’s story Sunday morning about St. Joseph’s Chapel I was appalled. This little space is as important in remembering 911 as the Memorial across the street. I used to walk our dogs by it quite...
Saint Joseph Chapel after September 11th 2001

Contra Indications

The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to reverse the flow of traffic on multiple streets in the Financial District in order to ease pedestrian and vehicular logjams expected to result from a new construction project on Broad Street, within the New York Stock Exchange security zone. The construction project is a massive new residential...
The new "supertall" residential tower that will shortly begin rising at 45 Broad Street has prompted City transportation officials to redraw the traffic map of the Financial District.

May 1

1006 – Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus 1704 – Boston Newsletter publishes first newspaper advertisement 1753 – Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. 1756 – France & Austria sign alliance 1757 – Austria & France...
On this day in 2003, George Bush declares "Mission Accomplished"

Eyes To The Sky May 1 – 14, 2017

An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse Explanation: Sometimes, a total eclipse of the Sun is an opportunity. Taking advantage of such, the above image shows the solar eclipse earlier this month [on November 11, 2013] as covered and uncovered by several different solar observatories. The innermost image shows the Sun in ultraviolet light as...
An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse

Tots Take Precedence Over Traffic

Community Board 1 (CB1) has formally endorsed a proposal to close half of a seldom-used street in the Financial District, in order to create a pedestrian plaza in front of a new public school that is slated to open in 2022. At the April 25 meeting monthly meeting of CB1, the panel enacted a resolution...
An architect's rendering of the new residential tower that will soon rise on the site of the former Syms Department Store, with the eight-story public school that will sit at its base visible in the foreground.