Month: April 2018

April 18

1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid. 1775 – Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the “regulars are coming!” 1783 – Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the...
Carpathia arriving at Chelsea Piers with Titanic survivors

Prescription: A Dose of Loss

To the editor: Yon and Elizabeth are going out of business is not the problem. They understand business is business. The real loss here is having great people like Yon and Elizabeth leaving the area. They did the community a favor by reopening after 9/11 when it did not make financial sense. Wish all the...
Yon and Elizabeth Kwack ran the BP Pharmacy for 35 years

Who Knows Wrong from Right and Is Red All Over?

The Downtown Alliance continued a decades-long tradition on Tuesday by honoring members of its Public Safety Officer program who have rendered meritorious service in the last year. In a ceremony held at Bobby Van’s Grill & Steakhouse on Broad Street, Alliance president Jessica Lappin observed, “this is one of my favorite days of the year,...
Downtown Alliance president Jessica Lappin (far right) and Alliance senior vice president for operations Ron Wolfgang (left) present awards to members of the organization's Public Safety Officer program.

April 17

1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date in 1387 as when the book’s pilgrimage to Canterbury begins. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by...
Canterbury Tales, Woodcut 1484

The Battery’s Up and Tribeca’s Down

Tribeca remains the most expensive neighborhood in which to buy a home anywhere in New York, even after dwellings there have lost almost one-third of their value in the last year, according to a new report from PropertyShark, a real estate web site and search engine that tracks sales and price data. The analysis finds...

April 16

1178 BC – A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War 1705 – Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College 1777 – Battle of Bennington-New England’s Green Mountain Boys rout British 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in...
Walter Cronkite, known as the "most trusted man in America" "There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."