Four Yeses, Six Maybes, and Thirty Nos
Most Common City Hall Answer to CB1’s Wish List Is ‘Get Lost’
Valediction: Catherine McVay Hughes
For more than a decade, residents of Lower Manhattan have benefited from the protection, advocacy, and vision of a staunch civic champion. During that time, Catherine McVay Hughes has served not only as chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), but has also lobbied relentlessly for programs to protect the health of Downtown residents affected by...
July 5
328 – The official opening of Constantine’s Bridge built over the Danube by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain. 1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This is the...
Rowing The Atlantic
Happy Birthday to United States of America and to your citizens! If I have got my arithmetics right it is 240 years since George Washington declared independence. Going well here. The W wind came a little later than forecast last night, pushing us the right way very nicely, thank you! Waiting for it last night...
Letters
To the editor: The very moving letter you published by Shelly Mossey about Olga Evgleska Cook’s death with its description of the chaos in parts of our BPC neighborhood re-emphasized my comment yesterday, “Sometimes I wish that our level of civilization in this neighborhood were on a par with our landscaping.” For all the upscale...
Battery Plans for a Jungle Gym, Literally
Forty-eight hours after the historic park at Manhattan’s southern tip celebrated the much-anticipated opening of the Battery Oval, a magnificent, two-acre lawn, Warrie Price, the president of the Battery Conservancy was unveiling the planned, next phase of the park’s ongoing renaissance. “I’m here tonight to talk about the Battery PlayScape, which you will be voting...
Rowing The Atlantic
Day 47, evening. Just lost a long update as I pushed “send”… Short version is another full day of fog, S wind that was moderate, became quite strong and with some rough seas. Not possible to row the ideal 65 degree course, but have managed about 45. At the price of hard, uncomfortable work with...
