More than 100 friends and neighbors gathered at Treadwell Park on Monday evening for a Battery Park City Cares fund raiser to aid victims from a slew of recent hurricanes. The assembled crowd (which included several senior staff from the Battery Park City Authority) shared drinks and food (donated, along with the space, by Treadwell […]
Archives for September 2017
September 25
275 – In Rome (after the assassination of Aurelian), the Senate proclaims Marcus Claudius Tacitus Emperor. 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England. 1237 – England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border. 1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez […]
Putting the Action in Benefaction
Tonight (Monday, September 25), Lower Manhattan’s homegrown humanitarian organization, Battery Park City Cares, will host a fund raiser at Treadwell Park (301 South Avenue, at the corner of Albany Street), from 6:30 to 9:00 pm, to aid communities devastated by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The organization was founded in the wake of the terrorist attacks […]
September 22
904 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter. 1692 – The last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials […]
Delayed Deliverance
A student from Stuyvesant High School, whose name has not been released, fell from the Esplanade into the Hudson River on Wednesday, around 1:00 pm, and was not aided by emergency responders for almost 20 minutes, according to witnesses. One bystander, a Battery Park City resident who has asked that her name be withheld, recalls, […]
September 21
455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. 1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy. 1897 – The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa […]
A Report Card for Rental Buildings
A website that aims to, “bring trust back to the Manhattan rental market,” by using government data to foster transparency on the part of landlords and reward those who adhere to best practices, has created a search engine that assigns a letter grade to every apartment in New York based on public records. Rentlogic.com, founded […]
September 20
622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrive in Medina 1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de […]
Reading, Writing, and Statistics
Data from the City’s Department of Education (DOE) indicates that there may be a correlation between the amount an elementary school spends on each student, and how many applications it receives for each available seat. A further connection may be observed between per-student spending and achievement, as measured by standardized test scores. These parallels can […]
September 19
335 – Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I. 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion. 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget. 1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across […]