Community Board Applications

The Manhattan Borough President’s office is currently accepting applications for Community Board membership. If you would like to join your Community Board,  fill out the online application. Deadline: January 29, 2016 5pm.You will be contacted regarding the next steps in the screening and interview process. For more information, visit the Manhattan Borough President’s website or...

Battery Park City Committee Meets Tonight

AGENDA 1) Tunnel to Towers Foundation street activity permit application for Vesey Street between West Street and North End Ave. Saturday, September 24, 2016, 8amto September 25, 2016 5pm. – Resolution 2) Pier A – Update by HPH NYC 3) West Thames Lawn – Update by Robin Forst, Vice President, External Relations, Battery Park City Authority 4) Liberty Street...
Pier A and the loss of public seating

Tarnished Silver

Sheldon Silver, the onetime Speaker of the State Assembly and the longtime patron and defender of Lower Manhattan, was convicted by a federal jury on Monday afternoon of seven counts of extortion, money laundering, and honest services fraud. Although an appeal of the verdict is likely, Mr. Silver now faces up to 130 years in prison.In the...
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, speaking in front of 4 World Trade Center, turns his face in the wind.

O Say, Can You See?

The road trip is as American as apple pie, child obesity and Wal-mart. And for those who have made this nationalistic pilgrimage know that the act of taking photographs is akin to a sacred rite. So finally, for the first time ever, a survey of the American Road trip has been undertaken by David Campany,...

Today in History – March 30th

1796 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon 1842 – Ether used as an anesthetic for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long of Georgia 1858 – Pencil with attached eraser patent granted to Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia 1867 – The United States buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000,...
1909 - Men at Work on the Queensboro Bridge

When Apportunity Knocks

Are you curious about Battery Park City? When did it start? How big is it? How many people live there? Want to know about its public art? Who designed the buildings? Well, there’s an app for that and surprisingly, The Battery Park City Authority didn’t design it. Last September, the Kozyarchuk family was looking for...
Kozyarchuk Family
The Kozyarchuk family created the App in part in brainstorming sessions around the dinner table