Month: February 2018

“Manifestipi”

The National Museum of the American Indian, at Bowling Green in the Alexander Hamilton Custom House, is undergoing a transformation. For many years, exhibitions centered on the vast amount of Native American artifacts that were collected more than a century ago by George Gustav Heye who, like many others, saw a complex civilization disappearing as...

11TH ANNUAL TRIBUTE TEACHER AWARDS AND REMEMBRANCE OF FEBRUARY 26, 1993

The 9/11 Tribute Museum will mark the 25th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center by honoring teachers who create inspiring lessons to educate students.  For the past 11 years, the 9/11 Tribute Museum has honored teachers from across the United States for the innovative lessons they have created to introduce students of all ages to the...

Something Scott’ll Give

On a Sunday radio talk show, City Comptroller Scott Stringer renewed his 2014 call to dedicate a portion of excess revenue generated by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to New York’s crumbling low-income housing infrastructure. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), “is in crisis,” he said. “People who live in NYHCA have weathered...
Stringer: "One of the proposals I have is to put $40 million in annual surpluses that the City receives from the Battery Park City Authority, and give it to NYHCA to address their capital needs and massive maintenance backlog."

February 23

532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia. 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an...
Rent's Due: The US pays Cuba around $4,000 a year for the use of Guantanamo Naval Base.

Preserving the Priceless Legacy of History

Dear editor,      On Tuesday evening I attended  a meeting of Community Board 1 at Southbridge Towers. The subject of the meeting was to allow Howard Hughes Company to present a comprehensive plan for the final use by Hughes and the public of the reconstructed glass cube Pier 7 including its large roof space...

Live in FiDi, with Rents That Aren’t Sky-Hi

The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is accepting applications for 30 new apartments now under construction (including studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units) in a luxury building at 60 Fulton Street (between Cliff and Gold Streets), which have been set aside at less-than-market rents for low- and moderate-income tenants. Half of these 30...
The Exhibit is a new luxury rental building at 60 Fulton Street, which will contain 30 affordable units, available at below-market rents, and set aside for a broad range of incomes.