Secrets and Lies
A Victory in the Battle to Disclose City’s Knowledge of September 11 Health Risks
January 3
1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. Three months later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor declared him an outlaw and...
The POPS Heads Uptown
This year the New York Philharmonic celebrating its 175 anniversary has requested that certain New York City groups perform their own version of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, the New York Philharmonic’s first concert performance 175 years ago. One of those groups is Lower Manhattan’s TriBattery Pops. Tom Goodkind, the founder and conductor, spent the better...
Interesting Thames
The owner of two historic skyscrapers in the Financial District is proposing to close the street that separates the buildings and turn the thoroughfare into a block-long retail plaza. The block in question in Thames Street, which stretches for 270 feet between Broadway and Trinity Place, just south of Zuccotti Park. For decades, Thames Street...
Ho, Ho, Ho…
It is a little-known fact that the Broadsheet is written, edited, and distributed by elves. (Have you ever noticed that it seems just to appear in your lobby, but you’ve never actually seen it being delivered? This is because elves are second-cousins to leprechauns, but that’s a story for another day.) In any case, we...
December 21
1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion. 1879 – World premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile. 1919 – American anarchist Emma...
Generation Gap
Lower Manhattan has a new landmark: the 1888 Excelsior Power Company Building, at the corner of Gold and Fulton Streets. Described by the American Institute of Architect’s Guide to New York as, “a lusty Romanesque Revival brick monolith,” the structure boasts a storied past. It was commissioned by Martin Brown in the early years of...
