Month: March 2019

Battery Park City resident and  BPCA board member Martha Gallo The board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has a new vice chair: neighborhood resident Martha Gallo. At the February 26 meeting of the Authority’s board, chairman George Tsunis announced, “I am proud to offer resolution of the appointment of a vice chair, Martha...

Before Hildegard von Bingen notated her beautiful composition “O Antique Sancti,” very little music had been written. Known for her music and scientific texts, Hildegard von Bingen was a nun who lived from 1098 to 1179. An all-female ensemble from the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra (KCO) brought Hildegard von Bingen’s thousand-year-old music to life on March...

Winsome Brown and Claude Arpels Click to hear a few minutes of Winsome’s rap. (Link is fixed) Lisa Ecklund-Flores  and Daryl Kleiman Attorney Daryl Kleiman stepped up to the microphone at The Event, the annual fundraiser gala for the Church Street School for Music & Art, and reminded the glitterati that they might have seen...

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and Community Board 1 will co-host a public meeting about resiliency plans for the southern section of Battery Park City, around Wagner Park, tomorrow (Tuesday, March 12), starting at 6:00 pm, at Six River Terrace, next to Le Pain Quotidien and opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial. This session will...

Attorney Daryl Kleiman stepped up to the microphone at The Event, the annual fundraiser gala for the Church Street School for Music & Art, and reminded the glitterati that they might have seen her not so long ago answering the school’s phone as the receptionist. Growing up in Battery Park City, Ms. Kleiman attended the...