Fighting to Save the Joys of Music and Art

In all of Lower Manhattan, there is probably no one more committed to awakening young children to the potential of music and art than Lisa Ecklund-Flores. When Church Street School for Music and Art opened in 1990, Tribeca was just beginning its transformation from a sleepy spice and food warehouse district occupied by artists and...
Winsome Brown leads the large crowd of supporters at Michael Dorf's City Winery raising funds for Church Street School

January 5

1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England. 1527 – Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning. 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to...
Ford Motor Company announces the 8 hour work day

Irina Sheynfeld

It is the natural world that provides the source of artistic inspiration for Irina Sheynfeld. On a recent trip to the Galapagos Islands she was struck by the abundance and beauty of life, preserved there because of the remoteness and absence of urban development. She conveys intense beauty and other-worldliness in her color-saturated paintings of...

Lost & Found in New York

157 years ago, in 1860, English immigrant William Loft opened a candy store in Lower Manhattan and his two sons followed in his footsteps, taking charge of the company in the 1890s.  One son, George Loft, soon opened two more stores, and then added more as he moved production out of the family kitchen into...

Lost & Found in New York

157 years ago, in 1860, English immigrant William Loft opened a candy store in Lower Manhattan and his two sons followed in his footsteps, taking charge of the company in the 1890s.  One son, George Loft, soon opened two more stores, and then added more as he moved production out of the family kitchen into...

Whose Wharf Is It, Anyway?

At its meeting tonight, the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will hear an update about the future of North Cove Marina from Callie Haines, a senior vice president at Brookfield Properties, the giant office and shopping mall developer that was awarded control of the marina (which is legally mapped as parkland)...
Parting the Waters: North Cove Marina (shown here at the height of its success as a community facility) has struggled to remain relevant to area residents since the departure of the local resident and small businessman who ran a school, club, and camp there for decades, before being removed by the Battery Park City Authority in 2015.