Arcadian Rhythm: BPCA Says It Might Propose, But Not Impose, If Opposed

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host a Concept Development Open House tonight (July 25), to share preliminary ideas about how to reconfigure the streetscapes on South End Avenue and West Thames Street, and to solicit feedback from the residents. The session will take place at Six River Terrance (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial...

RiverWatch

Thursday, July 21 Sea Princess Outbound 5:00 pm; Panama Canal/South Pacific/Australia Saturday, July 23 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Bermuda Norwegian Gem Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 3:30 pm; Florida/Bahamas Sunday, July 24 Celebrity Summit Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Bermuda Norwegian Breakaway Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30...

Rowing The Atlantic

Today got better and better after I wrote. Our progress has been quite amazing with a current that I saw curving E this morning establishing itself in E to SE direction at 1,5 k or more! So yesterday’s suggestion of 170 (nearly S) was not far off. We did more than 40 nm in 12...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

July 22

1706 – The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first European to complete a transcontinental...

Letters

To the editor, They (BPCA) just don’t get it. The July 20th meeting was an embarrassment. I was embarrassed to see a room full of very busy and competent people having to sit through boring information that served the needs of the presenters, but not those of the people stuck in the seats. That consultant...

Letters

To the editor, The BPCA spent approximately $200,000 dollars on a “survey” concerning Battery Park City. Among those surveyed were visitors, workers and residents, now I ask you, what input should a tourist form Arkansas who walks our neighborhood for a few days have??? What input should a worker, who spends the majority of his/her...