Loggia Loggerheads

On Wednesday morning, supporters and critics of the plan to convert to commercial, retail use more than 100,000 square feet of public space in arcades along Water Street gave testimony before the City Council. The Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises opened when chairman Donovan Richards invited City Council member Margaret Chin (whose district includes the...
Water Street Arcade

Quotidien Concerns

Le Pain Quotidien plans to open a new location at Gateway Plaza later this year, and hopes to install outdoor seating for dozens of diners on the busy sidewalk on South End Avenue, near the driveway that serves as an entrance to Battery Park City’s largest residential complex. “We hope to have outdoor seating with...
A rendering of Le Pain Quotidian's plan for outdoor seating at its new restaurant, slated to open in Gateway Plaza in August. The area in the upper right is the storefront once occupied by the Cafe Express Deli. The section at lower right in the storefront that once housed the Blooming Nails salon. And the space at lower left is the storefront that was once home to the New Plus newsstand. The right side of this image is the curb along South End Avenue. and the bottom edge of the diagram is the driveway leading into Gateway Plaza.

District Leader Rajkumar Kicks Off Campaign for Assembly Seat

Six days after the replacement for the former State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was elected, the campaign to succeed his successor began, as elected Democratic Party District Leader and civil rights lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar officially declared her candidacy on Monday evening. Before a crowd of 100 people at SouthWestNY restaurant, Ms. Rajkumar said, “for too...

To the Editor

While the tone of the April 13th meeting was more conciliatory than that of the first one in December, I hope that BPC residents don’t get seduced into this “let’s all have a beer and chat” mood. The problems that exist regarding the legitimacy of BPCA governance are serious, and will not be easily corrected....

April 22

1370 – Building begins of the Bastille in Paris 1500 – Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal 1838 – English steamship Sirius docks in New York after Atlantic crossing. The journey lasted longer than expected, and when coal ran low the crew burned cabin furniture, spare yards, and even one mast. Home of...
The Bastille in France before the Revolution.

One Hundred Years Ago This Weekend, the Dawn of a New Éire

America’s Declaration of Independence begins with a stately flourish: “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” But Ireland’s equivalent document, the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic, gets right to the point: “In the name of God and...