Month: January 2019

Calendar

JANUARY 10 12noon-1PM Bodies on the Gears: Noah Fischer Gibney Dance During the Occupy Wall Street Movement, the artist wandered Zuccotti Park as a talking coin giving voice to the complaints of a faltering democracy in the face of concentrated corporate wealth. Then one day an old Yippie, famous for pie-in-the facing Washington elites, admonished...
The Berlin Wall

Today in History January 10

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. *1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London. *1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense. *1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after...
John D. Rockefeller

Letters

To the editor: Tuesday’s  BroadsheetDAILY had so many troubling concerns deserving comment! First, I fully support CB1 for pointing out the inappropriateness of BPC for a memorial for victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico.  The Governor wants to be a hero proposing this and BPC is under his control.  So, he suggests our neighborhood...

Pedagogy and Inequality

Local leaders are echoing calls from elected officials for Mayor Bill de Blasio to reconsider his plan to boost diversity at the City’s specialized high schools, a group of eight selective secondary schools, where students are admitted on the basis of a competitive examination. In a series of proposals, City Hall has variously called for...

Dead in the Water

Six years, two months, and 11 days after Hurricane Sandy swamped Lower Manhattan, Community Board 1 (CB1) is sounding the alarm about the process for developing a resiliency plan to protect the community from future extreme-weather events, which appears to have lapsed into an indefinite hiatus. At a December 19 meeting, Diana Switaj, CB1’s Director...

January 9

 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.  1150 – Wanyan Liang and other court officials murder Emperor Xizong of Jin. Wanyan Liang succeeds him as emperor.  1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the...
Shackleton's crew