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

Home Rule, But By Whom?

The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) has passed a resolution giving a qualified endorsement to a law proposed by State Senator Daniel Squadron, which (if enacted) would require that Lower Manhattan residents be appointed to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), while also rigorously questioning the Senator’s representative...
Ninfa Segarra, chair of CB1's Battery Park City Committee: "Senator Squadron has again introduced a bill that regards the composition of the Battery Park City Authority board and the issue about residents being put on the board."

Today in History March 16

597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king. 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.” 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. 1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of...
1968 General Motor's produces its 100 millionth automobile. Here is a 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado

Impacted Wisdom Truth

RE: BroadsheetDAILY March13, 2017 Impacted Wisdom Truth To the editor: Question: Would it not make more sense to have such a tax go into a special infrastructure fund dedicated to serve a district rather than just earmarked for schools? It is obvious that not only schools are impacted by residential development: Fire; transportation, sanitation, water,...