Today in History November 4

1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria. 1791 – The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash. 1890 – City and South London Railway: London’s first deep-level tube railway opens between King William...
Square in Florence with a white high water mark of the 1966 flood. The marker is about 13 ft high.

RUTH OHMAN IN MEMORIAM

Dear Friends of Ruth, Please be informed that a Memorial/Tribute has been scheduled to honor the memory of our dear friend and neighbor, Ruth Ohman. Date: Friday, November 18th, 2016 Time: 12:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Place: BPCP Community Room 6 River Terrace Everyone please feel free to step up and speak a few words...
Ruth Ohman In Memoriam

LETTERS

To the editor: The new bridge would involve going way out of my way to get the the Rector St 1 and R stations vs the existing one which provides much more direct access. I suppose the alternative for me and others is (go somewhat out of my way) to cross at Albany St intersection....
The West Thames Bridge
The bridge, shown here in an architect's rendering, will be a 230-foot long lenticular truss, stretching diagonally across the junction of West and West Thames Streets, from the southwest to the northeast corners of the intersection.

Proposed Patronym Put on Hold

A venerable publishing firm whose history is bound up with that of Lower Manhattan is asking for some acknowledgement (in the form of a street corner renaming), but Community Board 1 (CB1) is saying, “not so fast.” HarperCollins Publishers began life as J. & J. Harper in 1817, when brothers James and John (having been...
Pouty Plutocrats: A group portrait of the Harper brothers (Fletcher, onetime New York City Mayor James, John, and Joseph) by pioneering American photographer Matthew Brady, displaying the obligatory somber miens that were considered becoming among nineteenth century magnates.

The Presidential Election Who & Why

In the Clinton vs Trump contest, you have seen every political dirty trick (demonizing lies, voter suppression) in the book by Republicans who historically are well-known for them and should speak for itself to a thinking person. If in power, Trump may evolve from a”rigged”paranoid/ “got all answers”megalomaniac to a narcissist psychopath like Hitler surrounded...

The Presidential Election Who & Why

In the Clinton vs Trump contest, you have seen every political dirty trick (demonizing lies, voter suppression) in the book by Republicans who historically are well-known for them and should speak for itself to a thinking person. If in power, Trump may evolve from a”rigged”paranoid/ “got all answers”megalomaniac to a narcissist psychopath like Hitler surrounded...