For the first time in four years, Community Board 1 (CB1) will tonight convene a panel devoted exclusively to housing issues. The Housing Subcommittee will be chaired by Tom Goodkind, and its work may continue the research and advocacy begun by CB1’s earlier Housing Committee (also chaired by Mr. Goodkind), which produced a series of…
Month: October 2017
October 13
54 – Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him. 1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a “confession” of heresy. 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. 1792 –…
Removing the ‘Our’ from of ‘Arcade’
Community Board 1 (CB1), along with a coalition of public-service organizations, is opposing a request by the owners of 200 Water Street to privatize more than 4,700 square feet of public amenity space. This space consists largely of arcades — the columned porticos that adorn the ground-floor facades of more than a dozen Water Street…
Water Street Public Space
To the editor, The Downtown Connection bus begins its run on Water Street right beside this building. Riders gather here and it’s nice to able to wait under some cover if the bus is delayed. In addition, this corner of Water and Fulton Streets is crowded with tourists, residents and students. South Street Seaport is…
Local Heroines
The Chargers, the girls softball team field by I.S. 276 (also known as the Battery Park City School), took the City-wide championship in the spring of this year, but the title was decided so late in the school year that it wasn’t until this autumn that the squad could reunite on the steps of City…
October 11
1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo. 1614 – Adriaen Block ( of Block Island fame ) and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. 1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand….