Month: May 2019

Today in History May 16

5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in midtown 1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality Gordon Cooper in his spacesuit 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal...
5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in midtown

Today’s Calendar May 16

6PM Quality of Life & Service Delivery Committee Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North AGENDA 1) Aggressive Ticket Sellers – Report and Discussion 2) Sanitation Special Districts – Discussion 3) Commercial Waste Carting Zones – Update 4) 253 Broadway Sanitation Issues – Discussion and possible resolution 7PM Confronting Hate 911...

Whose Historic District Is It, Anyway?

Local leaders want the City to expand legal protections for the South Street Seaport northward, as far as the Brooklyn Bridge. Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing to expand the legally protected Historic District that covers much of the South Street Seaport neighborhood, in order to put the brakes on development in areas currently not...
Local leaders want the City to expand legal protections for the South Street Seaport northward, as far as the Brooklyn Bridge.

The BroadsheetDAILY May 15

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com| ebroadsheet.com Whose Historic District Is It, Anyway? Local Leaders Want to Expand Protected Zone in South Street Seaport Local leaders want the City to expand legal protections for the South Street Seaport northward, as far as the Brooklyn Bridge. Community Board 1 (CB1) is...

Letters : Time Runs Out for Landmarked Clock Tower

To the editor: RE: Time Runs Out for Landmarked Clock Tower (BroadsheetDAILY APRIL 9, 2019  by Matthew Fenton) The single most devastating decision to the cause of preservation in the history of the New York City Landmarks Law and, without a doubt, the most disappointing in my 27+ year career as an attorney. My heart breaks...
Landmarked Clock Tower

Today in History May 15

Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1958. Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. 1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Ad extirpanda authorized in limited and defined...
Three Flags by Jasper Johns, 1958.