Letters

To the editor: On the topic of the BPCA Board – I can understand that the Board has business to attend to and that the members are not paid for their service on the Board so they want their meetings to run efficiently. Dennis Mehiel knows that if community comment were to be allowed, much...

Growing Up Suddenly

Helaina Hovitz was a 12-year-old middle school student attending I.S. 289 on September 11th, 2001. The events and experiences that are part of collective memory for Lower Manhattan residents were a very real part of Helaina’s life, and are still vivid in her memory today: the sickening thud of falling bodies hitting cars, the crumbling...

Today in History

455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces. 1792 – French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy. 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan,...
A little after midnight on September 21, 1776, the Fighting Cocks Tavern on Whitehall Street caught fire. The revelers inside the tavern were unable to contain it and soon it raged into a dangerous inferno, spreading up the west side of Manhattan.

Squadron Renews Call for BPCA to Allow Public Comment at Board Meetings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAD-shh2sE&feature=youtu.be State Senator Daniel Squadron took the floor at Tuesday’s meeting of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board to push once again for residents of the community to be allowed to speak at meetings where decisions about their futures are made. This is the second consecutive meeting of the BPCA board at which Senator...
State Senator Daniel Squadron, makes the case for public comment at BPCA board meetings while Authority chairman Dennis Mehiel looks on.

Today in History

1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-inin Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air. 1737 – The Walking Purchase, an agreement between the Penn family and Lenape tribe, is finalized which forces the session of 1.2 million...