Mayor Bloomberg has ordered a mandatory evacuation of Zone A, an area that includes much of lower Manhattan along the Hudson River and East River area. Battery Park City residents, in particular, are advised to monitor the situation closely. Please refer to this map for more information about your location.
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BY ERIC GREENLEAF | Downtown’s worst school overcrowding fears have come true. A four-year-old school, The Battery Park City School (Public School 276), shouldn’t have 160 percent of the kids it was designed to hold. Nor should it be forced to admit five kindergarten classes for two years in a row when it was intended [...]
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Was Tainted Right or Wrong Adjective? To the Editor: Re “Gayle Horwitz resigns as B.P.C.A. president” (news article, Sept. 19): I was pleased to see the editor’s acknowledgement that the headline calling Gayle Horwitz’s record “tainted” was inaccurate. However, I believe that substituting “tainted” with “mixed” has the similar effect of misrepresenting Ms. Horwitz’s record as [...]
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Judge Richard J. Sullivan, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, made the right decision when he recently ruled that the New York Police Department illegally arrested large numbers of demonstrators at a protest in Lower Manhattan during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Yet, at the same time, Judge Sullivan [...]
Continue reading …Horwitz was right to veto Otterness lions To the Editor: Re “Gayle Horwitz resigns as B.P.C.A. president” (news article, Sept. 19): In response to Tom Goodkind’s comment about Gayle Horwitz’s taking the animal rights activists’ side of the Tom Otterness controversy, I, for one, applaud her decision. Whether or not Mr. Goodkind thinks my personal [...]
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Since its inception in 1992, the Lower East Side Business Improvement District has been a boon to businesses on and around Orchard and Allen Streets by keeping the streets clean and drawing in crowds of patrons through creative promotional efforts. The BID’s DayLife events, which began in June and conclude on Sun., Oct. 28, have [...]
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BY JULIE MENIN | As unemployment numbers for New York City continue to hover at around 10 percent, it is time, as we commemorate the 11-year anniversary of Sept. 11, to look at what we have been able to achieve Downtown — and to take those lessons and actions and apply them across the city. [...]
Continue reading …Going back to the drawing board for Pier 40 To the Editor: Re “Pier 40 faces closure, Hudson River Trust warns” (news article, Aug. 22): When have threatening tactics ever worked? The issue of Pier 40 is not a new one — yet to hear it from the Hudson River Park Trust, the pier will [...]
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The settlement made between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the National Sept. 11 Memorial is a crucial step forward toward resolving the year-long financial impasse that has significantly thwarted progress at the World Trade Center site. Having a written agreement forces both sides to commit to a set of guidelines [...]
Continue reading …Hooray for new N.Y.P.D. security initiative! To the Editor: Re “New high-tech crime center enables cops to better target terrorists” (news article, Aug. 22): Thank you very much for the excellent article. The dichotomy in which society has to weigh the use of potentially intrusive technology or other potentially far-reaching police measures to protect the citizens — notwithstanding the potential [...]
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