Secrets and Lies
A Victory in the Battle to Disclose City’s Knowledge of September 11 Health Risks
The Anti-Trump Camp
A protest encampment similar in style to — but smaller in scale than — the Occupy Wall Street movement that transfixed Lower Manhattan in 2011 has claimed several hundred square feet of sidewalk space outside of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building, at northwest corner of Vesey and West Streets. The protestors arrived on Tuesday night,...
January 18
350 – General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor. 1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session. 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”. 1788 – The first elements of the...
Things You're Not Allowed to Do in Battery Park City
If Battery Park City sometimes seems a tad buttoned down, part of the reason may be all the forms of work and trade that are officially forbidden within the 92 acres of landfill between West Street and the Hudson River. The neighborhood, although governed and managed by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), is subject...
Things You’re Not Allowed to Do in Battery Park City
If Battery Park City sometimes seems a tad buttoned down, part of the reason may be all the forms of work and trade that are officially forbidden within the 92 acres of landfill between West Street and the Hudson River. The neighborhood, although governed and managed by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), is subject...
January 17
38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. 395 – Upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I, the Roman Empire is permanently divided into the Eastern Roman Empire under Arcadius, and the Western Roman Empire under Honorius. 1524 – Giovanni...
South West Makes Way for Upper East
A mainstay of Battery Park City’s restaurant scene will soon be almost-but-not-quite gone, and replaced by an uptown cousin. SouthWestNY, which been serving quesadillas and margaritas to Lower Manhattan residents since 1999, is a victim of changing times, according to Alexander Yellen, associate counsel at Merchants Hospitality, which owns the eatery. “Revenue has slowed, because...
