1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. 1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.) 1642 – England’s Parliament…
Month: September 2018
Red Light, Green Light…
More than a decade of advocacy by community leaders came to fruition at a meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) on Tuesday evening, when Tammy Meltzer announced that the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has agreed to install a traffic light at the intersection of South End Avenue and…
Today in History September 5
1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul’s Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry. 1774 –…
Gray Area
Brookdale Senior Living, the largest owner and operator of senior living communities throughout the United States, is selling its local outpost, Brookdale Battery Park, located at the corner of Chambers Street and North End Avenue, for $194 million. The purchaser is a real estate investment trust, Ventas, which invests primarily in properties serving various aspects…
A Competitive Edge
There are eight elite public high schools in New York City that admit students based on their score on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). More than 27,000 middle schoolers will take this test in the fall, but fewer than one in five will earn a coveted seat at one of the schools,…
LETTER
To the Editor: Chutzpah…It is not surprising to Seaport denizens that the Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC) fully understands the meaning of this word. HHC finally showed its hand at last month’s Manhattan Community Board 1 Executive Committee meeting: they want to line their pockets by bending the rules and asked the community to…