Brooklyn Bridge Beach Park. It isn’t exactly Coney Island. You probably couldn’t spread more that a dozen or two blankets and that’d be at low tide, because at high tide, it’s mostly under water. But Brooklyn Bridge Beach Park officially opened on July 14 for one day during the Waterfront Alliance’s 11th annual City of Water Day. The Waterfront […]
Archives for July 2018
LETTERS
To the editor: Good for Margaret Chin taking action to reduce traffic congestion downtown by introducing a resolution to change the toll pattern of the Verrazano Bridge. I hope that the next step will be for this matter to be brought to Congress where the legal change can be made. It’s an outrage that the […]
Little Bargains on Big Apartments
A new analysis of price movements in Battery Park City apartments — both rentals and condominiums — finds that valuations have begun to tick upward, but have still not fully recovered from a recent softening. The Battery Park City Report for the second quarter of 2018, recently issued by Platinum Properties, a brokerage firm headquartered […]
Today in History July 17
1054 – Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king 1203 – Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city 1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III 1821 – Spain cedes Florida to US 1841 – British humor magazine […]
A Life Worth ‘Pennies on the Dollar’
A construction firm has pleaded guilty second-degree manslaughter in causing the 2017 death of a worker at a building being erected in the Financial District, by creating unsafe conditions. The contractor, SSC High Rise, was hired to pour concrete on the upper floors of the 60-story building at 161 Maiden Lane, near the corner of […]
Today in History July 16
622 – Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina 1054 – Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West Schism. 1429 – Joan of Arc and the […]