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Design Discussion about Wagner Park BPCA and CB1 to Host Meeting Tonight

6-8PM 6 River Terrace The Battery Park City Authority and Manhattan Community Board 1 will host a design discussion about the future of Wagner Park as part of the South BPC Resiliency Project. Intended to be a deeper dive on the Wagner Park portion of the project, this discussion follows the March 12 South BPC...
Wagner Park

Curating an Artifact of the Unthinkable

The rail car was loaded onto a truck bound for Battery Park City  after its transatlantic voyage. (Editor’s Note: The author, David Cohen, is a 36-year resident of Battery Park City and the co-founder of Masterpiece International, a firm based in Lower Manhattan that specializes in transporting fine art objects for most of the world’s...
The rail car was loaded onto a truck bound for Battery Park City after its transatlantic voyage.

The Weekend Calendar April 13,14

SATURDAY 13 11AM Walking Tour: A Rebellious Brew: New York’s Tea Party of 1774 Fraunces Tavern Museum Boston was not the only Colonial city to have its own ‘tea party’ in revolutionary times. Many seaport cities, including New York, had their own rebellions. Join licensed New York City Tour Guide, Fred Cookinham, to envision New...
Titanic Memorial at South Street Seaport

Local Heroes

Local Heroes Manhattan Youth to Honor Downtown Education Supporters, Volunteers with Community Awards Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Chair Tricia Joyce: “I was raised by a strong mother who was and is a great role model in this way. I hope to do the same for my daughters.” Tonight (Thursday, April 11) Manhattan Youth...
Community Board 1's Youth and Education Chair Tricia Joyce: "I was raised by a strong mother who was and is a great role model in this way. I hope to do the same for my daughters."

A Remnant Remembered

City Council member Margaret Chin, flanked by Allen Millman, treasure of the LMHA (right),  presides over the co-naming of South William Street as “Mill Street Synagogue_Seixas Way.” City Council member Margaret Chin and community leaders gathered in the Financial District on Monday afternoon to commemorate the long-overlooked site of America’s first Jewish temple, the Mill...
City Council member Margaret Chin, flanked by Lower Manhattan Historical Society president James Kaplan (right), presides over the co-naming of South William Street as "Mill Street Synagogue_Seixas Way."

EAGLE WATCH REPORT:

  Jack Padalino has been birdwatching for over 50 years.  One day spent birding with Jack can be an adventure opening up worlds most of us never, ever see. Over this past winter, there have been opportunities for Manhattanites to leave town and drive northwest to the point where New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet...
Bald Eagle