Hors de Locavores

Agoraphiliacs Rejoice: Greenmarkets Bring Bounty to Lower Manhattan

Whose Authority Is It, Anyway?

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tomorrow night (Wednesday, March 22), from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community,...
At an April, 2016 session of the quarterly Open Community Meetings hosted by the Battery Park City Authority, State Senator Daniel Squadron speaks about the importance of gaining representation for residents on the Authority's board, as BPCA chair Dennis Mehiel and president Shari Hyman listen.

March 20

141 – 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1345 – Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought  to be the cause of plague epidemic 1760 – Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published 1861 – An earthquake completely...
Ovid "If you want to be loved, be lovable"

EYES TO THE SKY March 20 – April 2, 2017

By the sun’s path in the sky today – and not far off as March turns to April – we can read that spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere. As day dawns at 6:29 a.m. on the 20th, the sun reaches the midpoint of its journey between the extremes marked by the winter and...
We've come through the dark days of winter to the time of equal day and night.
To the editor: Thank you for the Broadsheet’s continued coverage of the effort to get more local representation on the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) Board, including Matthew Fenton’s recent “Home Rule, But By Whom?” I appreciate that Community Board 1 is again taking up support for my bill with Assemblymembers Glick and Niou to...
State Senator Squadron addressing a recent Battery Park City Authority board meeting

Statue Without Limitations

State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou led a coalition of elected officials representing Lower Manhattan in a rally on Friday afternoon to push for “Fearless Girl” — a bronze statue of a young female striking a jaunty, audacious pose that was recently installed in front of the “Charging Bull” sculpture at Bowling Green — to remain...
Female elected officials_ including State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou (left) and City Council member Margaret Chin (center), flanked by school-age girls, strike the "Fearless" pose of the bronze statue that was recently installed at Bowling Green, as State Senator Daniel Squadron looks on. They are part of a coalition that wants the City to make the display of the "Fearless Girl" statue at this location permanent.

Today in History March 17

45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 432 – St Patrick aged 16 is carried off to Ireland as a slave (traditional date) 1190 – A wave of anti-Semitic riots culminated in the massacre of an estimated...
Holland's submarine after testing off Staten Island