A website that aims to, "bring trust back to the Manhattan rental market," by using government data to foster transparency on the part of landlords and reward those who adhere to best practices, has created a search engine that assigns a letter grade to every apartment in New York based on public records. Rentlogic.com, founded by former TED Fellow Yale Fox, uses an algorithm that incorporates both artificial intelligence and machine learning to assess and rank apartment buildings.

In Battery Park City, there are 16 buildings that are exclusively or primarily rentals. Almost all of them are assigned a grade of A. But among these, the standouts appear to be Liberty Green (300 North End Avenue), the Verdesian (211 North End Avenue), and the Solaire (20 River Terrace), all three of which have perfect records in three categories: no problems cited by the City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), no violations cited by any other City agency, and no 311 complaints from the public.


At Battery Park City's largest residential complex, Gateway Plaza, the record is mixed. Two of the development's six buildings, 365 and 385 South End Avenue, earn an A rating. A third building, 345 South End Avenue, earns a B rating, apparently as a result 18 problems cited by HPD, and 22 violations issued by other agencies. Two more buildings, 355 and 395 South End Avenue, garner a grade of C, also as a result of recent problems and violations. Both of these buildings were earning A grades as recently as 2014, however. And one building within Gateway, 375 South End Avenue, was giving a failing grade by Rentlogic.com, stemming from 63 HPD problems and 38 violations from other agencies.

Within Battery Park City, the most serious black eye in terms of issues cited by HPD appears to be Tribeca Pointe (41 River Terrace), which racked up 416 such problems.


Elsewhere in Lower Manhattan, both towers in Tribeca's Independence Plaza complex (310 Greenwich Street and 40 Harrison Street) earn an F rating. The former's record includes 141 problems and 87 violations, while the latter tallies 283 problems and 113 violations.

The annual Tunnel to Towers run, which for years has welcomed organized groups from around the United States and as far away as Europe and Asia, will have one more squad of racers again this year, albeit from closer to home: residents of Lower Manhattan are being asked to participate as a dedicated group. That's you!

As a way of thanking the surrounding communities of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation is issuing a special invitation to the area residents to join the five-kilometer walk on Sunday, September 24 as a group, called "the Neighbors," to participate as a team in the event and the after-party that follows.

To join - go to www.crowdrise.com/the-neighbors

Event preparations will take place overnight, with one tube of the tunnel closed from 10 p.m. Saturday, September 23 through 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, September 24. One lane will remain open in each direction in the remaining tube during this time.

Additionally, beginning at 7 a.m. on Sunday, access to the Manhattan-bound HLC from local streets in Brooklyn will be blocked and motorists will only have access via the Gowanus Expressway.

The charity run/walk begins on the streets in Red Hook, goes through the tunnel and ends across from the World Trade Center site. The Tunnel to Towers Run retraces Firefighter Stephen Siller's footsteps and honors those who died on 9/11.

Click the picture to watch the Senior Swim video

The Downtown Community Center is proud to offer a free Senior Aquatics and Yoga program for community residents ages 65+.

We offer both open swim sessions as well as various senior swim classes and yoga classes.  Seniors swim, enjoy yoga, water aerobics or the steam room, five days a week at no cost. 

 

The Milky Way Photographer's statement: "Recent developments in camera sensors allow capture of low light images, with less noise. At this writing, Nikon D5 used for this photograph has one of the lowest 'noise' levels available. The 'ISO' setting was 3200 with a 20 second exposure at f2.8 (Nikkor 14mm-24 zoom set to 14mm). Image is stored as RAW. Once captured, image was modified in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) by sharpening, and changing 'curves' to better display the Milky Way. Foreground light is a single light bulb on an outdoor light pole. Note length of exposure captures movement of aircraft as a line."

   

The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York.

455 - Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.
1776 - Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
1792 - French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.
1897 - The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.

1776 The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. The fire destroyed about one third of the city.

1921 - A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
1934 - A large typhoon hits western Honshu, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
1937 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1938 - The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
1942 - The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
1961 - Maiden flight of the Boeing CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
1972 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation #1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
1976 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet. Letelier was killed by a car bomb explosion on September 21, 1976, in Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C., along with his American co-worker, Ronni Karpen Moffitt.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and reach Italy, where his descendants Romulus and Remus were to found the city of Rome.

2003 - Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
2013 - al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
1415 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1493)
1645 - Louis Jolliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1706 - Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (d. 1735)
1756 - John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (d. 1836)
1840 - Murad V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1904)
1866 - H. G. Wells, English historian, author, and critic (d. 1946)
1902 - Allen Lane, English publisher, founded Penguin Books (d. 1970)
1912 - Chuck Jones, animator, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1945 - Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
1947 - Stephen King, American author and screenwriter
1950 - Bill Murray, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1970 - Samantha Power, Irish-born American journalist, academic, and diplomat, 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
19 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (b. 70 BC)
1576 - Gerolamo Cardano,  mathematician, physician, and astrologer

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