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Savvy Downtowners Critique Redesign of Lower Manhattan Artery

A Call to Keep the Colonnade

Community leaders are voicing concerns about the fate of the South End Avenue pedestrian arcades, a three-block chain of columned, sheltered walkways that line the street-level facades of four large apartment buildings on the west side of the street. In addition to offering a community amenity that many residents value for protection from rain and...
The columned arcades along South End Avenue, between Albany Street and Rector Place, which the Battery Park City Authority is considering whether to fill in with additional retail space. Although there is generous space behind the columns (which offers pedestrians shade on sunny days, and shelter from rain), the sidewalks in front are less than half as wide.

Today in History

1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. 1536 – George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford and four other men are executed for treason. 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage. 1673 – Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Congress bans trade with Quebec. 1792...
"Public buildings best serve the public by being beautiful." Cass Gilbert

Double-crested Cormorant

  The double-crested Cormorant is often seen fishing off the esplanade of Battery Park City.  If you see one in the water, keep an eye on it, as in a short amount of time, it’ll dive underneath the water in search of food.  Count to ten and look around and you will see it resurface,...
Double-creasted Cormorant

Today in History

1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1606 – 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (1822-1900), inventor of the gas engine 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. By 1859, Lenoir’s experimentation without...
From the NTSB: "About 1735 e.d.t.,on May 16, 1977, the right landing gear of a New York Airways, Inc., Sikorsky Model S-61L helicopter, N619PA, failed while the aircraft was parked, with rotors turning, on the rooftop heliport of the Pan Am Building in New York, New York.

Double-crested Cormorant

  The double-crested Cormorant is often seen fishing off the esplanade of Battery Park City.  If you see one in the water, keep an eye on it, as in a short amount of time, it’ll dive underneath the water in search of food.  Count to ten and look around and you will see it resurface,...
Double-creasted Cormorant