Hors de Locavores

Agoraphiliacs Rejoice: Greenmarkets Bring Bounty to Lower Manhattan

PAC Benefaction

The proposed Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (PACWTC) that was promised to the Lower Manhattan community more than a decade ago took one giant step and one baby step toward becoming a reality. The giant step came on Wednesday, when the organization’s leadership team announced that billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist Ronald...
A preliminary sketch (now superseded by subsequent designs) for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center.

Rowing The Atlantic

Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage. Day 47, Thursday 30th June. Dense fog again! Gentle breeze from S plus some kind current has pushed us NNE, but the wind seems to...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

June 30

1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory. 1859 – Acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants...

Letters

To my neighbors in BPC, Last week a cyclist named Olga Evgleska Cook was killed by an automobile driver on Chambers Street and West Street. This could have easily been any one of the residents of Battery Park City, or even worse, one of our children, whether on a bicycle or simply walking home. My...

The Battery Conservancy Opens Battery Oval

The Battery Conservancy opened the lush, green Battery Oval last weekend with the two-day Battery Fair to celebrate the region’s biodiversity. As downtowners and tourists luxuriated in the thick, new grass, 90 purveyors offered their goods for sale at stands around the perimeter of the beautiful new lawn. A mix of locals and tourists browsed...

Where History Is Recalled By Those Who Participated

The 9/11 Tribute Center plans to move from its current headquarters, adjacent to the World Trade Center, to a larger space in the Greenwich South section of the Financial District. The move is necessitated by the growth in the Tribute Center’s exhibits and programs, as well as its swelling roster of visitors. The Tribute Center...
The current home of the 9/11 Tribute Center, at 120 Liberty Street, has served the organization since the facility opened in 2006, but growing programs and a burgeoning tally of visitors have made it necessary for the organization to find a larger headquarters.