Month: June 2018

Duty Is In the Eye of the Beholden

A new analysis of the highest property taxes in America finds that five buildings in Lower Manhattan are among the 100 highest levied in the nation, and contribute a combined total of more than $100 million in tax revenue. The report, by real estate blog CommercialCafe.com, finds that Downtown property with the greatest tax burden is...
390 Greenwich Street: Annual taxes of $23.8 million

Today in History June 25

Custer by Mathew Brady 1630 – Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop. It was about tine. 1638 – Lunar eclipse is first astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies 1667 – Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs first blood transfusion 1798 – US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens 1868...
Custer

EYES TO THE SKY June 25 – July 8, 2018

In a country cabin on a clear night last week, I was on my way to bed at about 11 o’clock when I made a detour to the front door. If the stars and planets are so bright that you spot them from a window, the allure of the rest of the sky is irresistible,...
Galaxies look like fireflies, from EarthSky.org This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a massive group of galaxies bound together by gravity: a cluster named RXC J0032.1+1808. Image via ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS.

Two Steps Forward

Elected officials and community leaders are reacting to the appointment of two community residents to the board of the Battery Park City Authority(BPCA) by Governor Andrew Cuomo in the last 48 hours of the Albany legislative session that has now ended. In the final days of the session, Mr. Cuomo designated Martha Gallo, an insurance...
BPCA Board members Anthony Kendall and Martha Gallo

Today in History June 22

Today in History June 22   Galileo   1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his viewthat the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki...
Galileo Galilei

Give Peace a Chance

More than 500 students at the Battery Park City School fanned out in front of their building on Battery Place on Tuesday to cover the sidewalk with messages of peace. The event, called Care Squares for Peace, is part a three-year old tradition at the school, which began in response to the 2016 mass shooting...
Hundreds of students from the Battery Park City School (P.S/I.S. 276) converge on the sidewalk in front of their building, to transform it into a vast mural advocating an end to gun violence.