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Savvy Downtowners Critique Redesign of Lower Manhattan Artery
Flood Risk Dampens Ardor for Lower Manhattan
Decision-makers who consider moving a business to Lower Manhattan are faced with many enticements, and one caveat, says a recent poll of more than 100 commercial property owners, brokers, agents, engineers, accountants and real estate lawyers. The survey, by accounting firm Marks Paneth, indicates that 70 percent of high-level real estate executives agree with developer...
Today in History
37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’ will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. 1673 – Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers 1881 – Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Garden 1891 – Britain is...
Letters to the Editor
Dear Congressman Nadler, Once more you vividly show with words and deeds you are a true people’s representative in your positions on all the crucial issues facing US citizens as well as your district in which I am located. I constantly admire your minority fight to slow the destruction of our system of democratic capitalism...
Oratorio About an Odd Couple
An issue that may help determine the outcome of this fall’s presidential election will be interpreted in song and music tonight, when the Lower Manhattan-based Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra (KCO) premieres, “Supreme Justice: The Battle for Gay Rights,” a new work for soprano, tenor, vocal ensemble and orchestra, which chronicles the struggle for marriage equality in...
City Taps Liberty Ferry Operator for Five-Borough Service
New York will soon be getting a city-wide network of ferries that cost no more than a subway ride, but the service will be provided by an out-of-town vendor that will likely sink the local competition, City officials announced Wednesday. During a press conference yesterday, New York Water Taxi boats floated up to Pier 11,...
Today in History
Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston. 1791 – First US internal revenue act, which taxed distilled spirits and carriages. 1803 – First impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins. He was officially the first judge to be impeached in 1804 on the grounds of drunkenness and unlawful rulings. 1845 – Florida became the 27th U.S. state....
