Skippers of Vintage Sailing Vessels Question Their Future at North Cove

Community Board 1 (CB1) has passed a resolution calling upon the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to live up to promises about keeping in North Cove Marina historic boats that provide affordable public sailing. The resolution is based on a discussion at the May 3 meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee, in which the...
Skipper Tom Berton (of Shearwater) and Pat Harris (of Ventura) explain to Community Board 1 why they fear that the Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and International Global Yachting don't want their historic vessels to remain at North Cove Marina.

May 31

1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Egypt. 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France. 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright...
The Ford assembly line

Rowing Across the Atlantic

“Day 15, 29th May and this morning 2 weeks since Fox II and I pulled out of North Cove Marina with Rozinante II just behind. Bjørn Jordan, owner of that yacht, is an old friend who Arvid Bentsen and I encountered at sea when we rowed from Tenerife to Barbados i 1997. Bjørn had crew...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his attempt rowing across the Atlantic last week the Battery in his rowboat named FOX II, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

In Memoriam: Bill Bernstein

Lower Manhattan lost a tireless civic champion on Tuesday when Bill Bernstein, a senior executive at the Downtown Alliance, died at age 64. “He was one of the people who came back to Lower Manhattan on September 12, 2001,” said Community Board 1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes, recalling how Mr. Bernstein talked his way past...
Bill Bernstein addressing the crowd in December 2013 at the dedication of Elizabeth Berger Plaza

How a Nazi Sympathizer's Tribeca Garage Will Become a Luxe Mansion

A building with a tangled pedigree will soon become Lower Manhattan’s newest palatial townhouse, if plans recently approved by Community Board 1 (CB1) are carried out. The building in question is located at 11 Hubert Street, roughly between the Citigroup tower and the Holland Tunnel plaza. The structure was built in 1946 by Dietrich Wortman,...
An architect's rendering of how the former garage will appear after conversion into a palatial townhouse.

How a Nazi Sympathizer’s Tribeca Garage Will Become a Luxe Mansion

A building with a tangled pedigree will soon become Lower Manhattan’s newest palatial townhouse, if plans recently approved by Community Board 1 (CB1) are carried out. The building in question is located at 11 Hubert Street, roughly between the Citigroup tower and the Holland Tunnel plaza. The structure was built in 1946 by Dietrich Wortman,...
An architect's rendering of how the former garage will appear after conversion into a palatial townhouse.