Year: 2017

November 8

1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. 1861 – American Civil War: The “Trent Affair”: The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. 1917 – The first Council of People’s...
Norman Rockwell

BPCA’s Agreement with Asphalt Green

Dear editor: On Tuesday, November 14, the BPCA will hold an Open Community Meeting.  I strongly suggest that they present us, the community, with details about BPCA’s Agreement with Asphalt Green (AG). We know that AG is supposed to make their facility available to the community, and that both the BPCA and AG should have...

Chin Re-Elected

City Council member Margaret Chin has won a third term representing Lower Manhattan. Preliminary (and unofficial) results from Tuesday’s election show her winning 11,468 votes, out of 23,027 ballots cast, which translates into a plurality of 49.80 percent. Her nearest competitor, Independence Party candidate Christopher Marte, garnered 8,502 votes, or 36.92 percent. After the results...
Incumbent City Council member Margaret Chin won her bid for reelection with slightly less than 50 percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday's election.

November 7

1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France. The remains of the meteorite were later put on display in the main hall of Ensisheim’s 16th-century Regency Palace. 1665 – The London Gazette, the...
Woodcut showing the fall of a meteorite in 1492 near the villages of Ensisheim and Battenheim , then in Germany, now in the Alsace region of north-eastern France.

West Thames pedestrian bridge cost at 45.1 million

To the editor: The news about the West Thames pedestrian bridge delay should not surprise anyone, even when the cost for construction of the bridge comes at a suspiciously ballooned cost, as of September 2016, to be $45.1 million !!! Does ANYONE realize what $45.1 Million can buy???! Anyone? No one asks if such a...

Rewriting the Fine Print

Among the questions voters will decide upon at the voting booth today (Tuesday, November 7) is an innocuous-sounding provision that reads as follows: “Ballot Proposal 1: Shall there be a convention to revise the Constitution and amend the same?” This measure, if enacted, may prove to be of keen interest for residents of Battery Park...
The contents of New York's original Constitution are revealed to the public in 1777.