Month: January 2019

The Pace of Change

Lower Manhattan’s Pace University, held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday to unveil the recently completed first phase of a multi-year plan to upgrade its campus: the extensive modernization to its signature Downtown structure, One Pace Plaza (built in 1969), and the adjacent historic structure, 41 Park Row (which dates from 1857). The renovation, which began...

January 28

814 – Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire. 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu’izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the...
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986 the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair and Ellison Onizuka engineer and astronaut. Image: NASA

‘You Know Best’

The New York Law School, located in Tribeca, hosted a panel discussion on January 18 that featured Jonathan Lippman, who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 2009 through 2015, and later headed up the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform. That panel’s recommendations —...
Judge Jonathan Lippman: "I hear you, I agree with you. One of the Commission's criticisms of the City is that the [proposed new] jails are out of scale."

January 25

*AD 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate. *1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. *1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded. *1858 – The Wedding...
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“Year round community use of our parks should always be our goal”

To the editor: re: Goodbye Monkey Bars, Hello Imagination Marsh  (BroadsheetDAILY January 17)   The pictures look wonderful. Equally wonderful will be the final completion of the project before those tots go off to college. But questions:  1. Is there a built in use for winter activities in any of this? Maybe one of those slides could...
Granite slides in the "Adventure Bluffs" section of the Playscape planned for the Battery. Illustration courtesy : BKSK ARCHITECTS LLP

Fiat Lux, But Maybe a Little Less?

Lower Manhattan may be on the verge of wrestling yet another title from Midtown, but one that few who live Downtown would wish for: The profusion of lighted building facades, LED displays, and animated digital signs on the local streetscape is beginning to remind some residents of Time Square, and inspire less-than-glowing reviews. The illuminated...
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