Year: 2017

November 6

1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas 1572 – Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia 1860 – Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President 1861 – Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president 1865 – American Civil...
John Philip Sousa, (1854 - 1932)

Panic Attack?

To the editor, In our political, paranoid world: one terrorist attack act causes a hugely disproportionate government response model resulting in unending public fear and over done, expensive security challenges and political self-congratulation, ironically and sadly showing the terrorists have won by the resulting terror and panic. Ask the bicyclers who are being hurt by...

Suspension Bridges

A pair of pedestrian bridges under construction in Battery Park City and the Financial District appear to be slipping behind schedule. The first of these is the West Thames bridge, which will eventually connect Battery Park City to the Financial District, beside the entrance plaza to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. In the most recent public review...

November 3

1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII’s first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII’s older brother – they would later marry. 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary. 1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the...
Operation Fishbowl The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Welcome to Lower Manhattan

Editor’s Note: When last week’s terror attack unfolded, Benjamin Shapiro, a junior at Stuyvesant High School had moved into the neighborhood just 12 days earlier. He provided the Broadsheet with this account: ‘We moved to one of those fancy-shmancy apartment houses across the street from Stuyvesant 12 days ago. Doesn’t feel that upscale yet, ’cause...

Gill Remembered

James Gill, who chaired the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) from 1996 through 2010, died last weekend, at age 86. He presided over the community during two booms and two busts. In the prosperous years of the late 1990s, he forged ahead with plans to develop still-vacant parcels of land throughout the neighborhood. At the...
James Gill, who chaired the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) from 1996 through 2010, died last weekend, at age 86.