Today in History November 2

1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip’s War. 1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football...
Howard Hughes' 'Spruce Goose' which was made of birch

LETTERS Can You Hear Me Now?

To the editor: Great article – informative and detailed. Thank you! And thank you again to Dennis Mehiel and the BPCA for taking this step. I am confident that, while the BPC community may disagree with many of the decisions of the Board and will have a lot to say, they will at all times...

Fish Gotta Swim…

The River Project, a marine science field station that works to protect and restore the ecosystem of the Hudson River Estuary and New York Harbor through hands-on environmental education and habitat improvement, is inviting your kids (and you) to its annual Release of the Fishes event, on Thursday (November 3), from 4:00 to 7:00 pm,...

Gym Dandy

Tricia Joyce had good news to share at the October 25 meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), where she chairs the Youth and Education Committee. “The new school on Trinity Place will have a full-sized gym and a separate assembly space with room for as many as 140 people.” This is the culmination of a...
CB1 Youth & Education chair Tricia Joyce
CB1 Youth & Education chair Tricia Joyce: "I just felt so passionate about this one. We did a survey of our Downtown schools and how their gyms and auditoriums were scheduled, and learned that gyms are in use every hour of every school day, and all day long on weekends. So it became clear that if DOE moved ahead with their original plan, a significant amount of programming would be lost."

Today in History November 1

1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored...
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

LETTERS

To the editor: RE: A Matter of Truss Decades Late, the West Thames Bridge Is Now Slated to Cost $196,000 Per Foot (BroadsheetDAILY Sept 15) I find it irresponsible how long this bridge (West Thames Bridge) has been repeatedly delayed. What makes the delay even worse is that last year, they announced that construction would...
The design for the West Thames pedestrian bridge calls for a "lenticular truss," which will cross from the southwest corner of West and West Thames Street, to the northeast corner of the same intersection -- connecting Battery Park City and the Financial District via a 230-foot span.