Secrets and Lies

A Victory in the Battle to Disclose City’s Knowledge of September 11 Health Risks

Rowing The Atlantic

Good morning from a gently rocking boat 804 nm from Isles of Scilly! But looking out is not a view like 24 hrs ago: Dense clouds of varying grey, some down to the horizon and probably full of rain. Some lighter streaks. Mackerel terns are there, singing always and I have slept quite well in...
Rowing the Atlantic

August 4

1532 – The Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France. 1789 – In France, members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges. 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard). 1791 –...
Phoenix's mission was to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars and to research the history of water there.

Developer Scores $95 Million Benefit in Exchange for Two Subway Elevators

The City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved the request by a real estate developer to build two futuristic-looking subway elevator sheds in the middle of a Lower Manhattan historic district, in exchange for which a new skyscraper planned for nearby will be allowed to build 70,000 extra square feet of interior space. This decision...
An architect's rendering of the subway elevator cube proposed for the east side of Broad Street, at Exchange Place. This structure, and its twin, located across the street, will be approximately 100 square feet.

Lower Manhattan Throbs with Gobs of Jobs

There are more than 5,100 new people working in Lower Manhattan, compared to this time last year, and another 10,000 are on the way, according to a new report from the Downtown Alliance. The group’s Lower Manhattan Real Estate Market Overview for the second quarter of 2016 reckons the total number of jobs in the...
To the editor: Your ongoing coverage of the South End Avenue arcades makes me think of Bologna, the Italian city renowned and beloved for medieval system of covered walkways. An internet search for “Bologna arcades” will yield hundreds of evocative images of the 24 miles of “portici” in the historic center of the city, constructed...

A Look Back in Time

The organizers of the 15th Annual Battery Park City Block Party (slated for Sunday, September 18) are requesting baby pictures. Not the human kind, but photos of Battery Park City itself in the 1980s. If you moved here when the neighborhood was still a frontier town, please email images to organizer Rosalie Joseph at Info@BPCBlockParty.com,...
Kite flying on the esplanade in early Battery Park City