Where Little Cable Cars May Someday Climb Halfway to the Stars

The backers of the proposed East River Skyway are expanding their plan to include a phase that would connect Battery Park with Governors Island, and Red Hook, Brooklyn. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Levy, president of the CityRealty website, who first proposed in mid-2016 to build a cablecar network with large gondolas that...
An artist's rendering of the first phase of the East River Skyway proposal, which could whisk commuters from Williamsburg to the Lower East Side in as little as five minutes.

March 30

1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification. 1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States. 1841 – The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens. 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford...

A Grand Alliance

The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), which oversees the operation of the City’s Business Improvements Districts (BIDs), has completed a report that sheds light on the work of the Downtown Alliance, which covers Lower Manhattan, roughly between between City Hall and the Battery, from the East River to West Street. A...

March 29

502 – King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws. 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm’s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV...
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. photo: Roger Higgins 'New York World-Telegram and the Sun'

Surge Protection

At its March 22 Open Community Meeting, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) presented an updated version of its plans to fortify Wagner Park, at the community’s southern tip, from future extreme weather events. The area was the site of serious flooding during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. The two centerpieces of the plan are a large...
An architect's rendering of the new plan to provide for resiliency in Wagner Park, which will focus on barriers formed by a new, sloping lawn that rises to a new building, which follows the contour of Battery Place.

Earth To Sky: Paintings by Debra Drexler

Commuting between Hawaii and New York, Debra Drexler thrives on living at the edge of two oceans. Hawaii has a unique form of tropical light diffused through blazing skies, resplendent with colors so intense that they can seem almost synthetic. New York has its own urban pulse with twenty-four seven illumination, flashing the frenetic energy...
Drexler’s multi-layered, luminous, large-scale paintings expand the dialog around 21st Century abstraction through their bold compositions and dynamic mark-making.