Month: November 2017

The Smart Money

One of Battery Park City’s most eclectic apartments is for sale. The penthouse at 380 Rector Place is owned by by Isaac Gindi, the son of the late Samuel “Sonny” Gindi, who founded the Century 21 discount department store chain in 1961. The younger Mr. Gindi and his brother, Eddie, now own Century 21. Since...
The outdoor deck of the penthouse at 380 Rector (which measures more than 2,500 square feet) contains slightly space than the interior of the apartment.

November 15

565 – Justin II succeeds his uncle, Justinian I, as emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation. 1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors. 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman...
A painting of New York City's urban landscape by Georgia O'Keeffe before she moved to the SouthWest

Lower Manhattan Lacks Curb Appeal

Lower Manhattan drivers who are chronically aggrieved by the local shortage of legal street parking should consider the bright side: They are contributing tens of millions of dollars per year in revenue to City coffers. A new analysis by SpotAngels, a smartphone app that aims to soothe parking headaches by offering users real-time data about...

November 14

1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile. 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville is published in the USA. Born at #6 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, the third child of a merchant in French dry goods, his father Allan Melville moved his wife and three...
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds a environmental sample container filled with lunar soil collected during his sojourn on the lunar surface. A Hasselblad camera is mounted on the chest of his spacesuit. Pete Conrad, who took this image, is reflected in Bean's helmet visor, Nov. 20, 1969

Q&A with BPCA

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Tuesday, November 14), from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community, and...

November 13

1002 – English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers 1775 – American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1789 – Ben Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes” 1839 – First US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in New York 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism,...
Holland Tunnel opens in 1927