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Newsstand Nixed (Again)

April 30, 2019 By

The newsstand currently operated by Abdur Patwary at the corner of Greenwich and Murray Streets. Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging the City’s Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to reject an application by a Tribeca newsstand operator to open a second kiosk one block away from his current location. The applicant, Abdur Patwary, first came […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized 8:12 am

Today in History

April 30, 2019 By Robert Simko

Click here to watch “Electro the Smoking Moto Man” at the 1939 World’s Fair Electro can count to five and, even though he’s only two years old, he can smoke! 311 – Emperor Galerius legally recognizes Christians in the Roman Empire 1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. 1492 – […]

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Filed Under: Today In History 8:11 am

Letters

April 30, 2019 By

To the editor: Two way tolls on the Verrazzano Bridge should make an enormous difference in the amount of truck traffic those of us living below Canal Street endure daily as we risk our lives trying to navigate crosswalks in an attempt to get to and from home. Since one way tolls began in 1986, […]

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Filed Under: Letters 8:09 am

Today’s Calendar

April 30, 2019 By Robert Simko

5:30PM Battery Park City Book Club New York Public Library Join the Battery Park Book Club for a lively discussion of a great book. This month’s book is Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner. Battery Park City branch of the New York Public Library. 175 North End Avenue. 7PM Epic Voices: Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized 8:08 am

Call It ‘Decongestion Pricing’

April 29, 2019 By

U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler (center) and City Council member Margaret Chin (left) look on as MTA chief Patrick Foye describes a plan to reinstitute two-way tolling on the Verrazzano Bridge. A gaggle of elected and appointed officials gathered on Staten Island on Sunday morning to announce their support for changing a decades-old tolling policy on […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized 11:07 am

Today in History

April 29, 2019 By Robert Simko

The Berlin Wall under construction 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives at the seige of Orleans 1623 – 11 Dutch ships depart for the conquest of Peru 1715 – John Flamsteed observes Uranus for sixth time 1784 – Premiere of Mozart’s Sonata in B flat, K454 (Vienna) Charles Darwin 1834 – Charles Darwin’s expedition sees […]

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Filed Under: Today In History 11:05 am

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