Month: June 2016

The Job Market

Downtown ranks dead last among all communities in the five boroughs for the percentage of unemployed residents, according to the City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the tally of locals who can’t find work may get even smaller tomorrow (Wednesday, June 29), when a job fair at the Conrad New York Hotel (102...

June 27

1542 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria,King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. In was the last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. 1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black...
John Dean, Richard Nixon's White House counsel testifying before the Watergate Committee

Rowing The Atlantic

Ok night, but the good drift NNE after my session last night has not lasted, although the direction is at least E of N. Still same, moderate breeze from S, but seas are lumpy, boat rolling more and I suppose it is current playing tricks with us again. Foggy, but the sun is trying hard...

Letters

To the editor: On June 28 the Democratic registered voters of the tenth congress district will have the right to nominate to re-elect congressman Jerrold Nadler to represent them for another two years. Jerrold Nadler This election more than any other in recent times will determine whether our democratic capitalist system  now captured  and immobilized...

Lower Manhattan Forecast: It's Getting Cloudier

The Downtown Alliance has finished rolling out the newest phase of its ongoing effort to blanket Lower Manhattan in free wireless connectivity. The Alliance announced on Monday that it had added more than 800,000 additional square feet, completed a half-mile plus corridor along Broadway (between Barclay Street and the Battery) and unified its previously separate...
The area blanketed by the Downtown Alliance's free wireless network has grown to include an uninterrupted corridor of coverage on Broadway, between Barclay Street and the Battery, along with similar corridors along Water, South, and Front streets, as well as more than a dozen plazas and parks.

Lower Manhattan Forecast: It’s Getting Cloudier

The Downtown Alliance has finished rolling out the newest phase of its ongoing effort to blanket Lower Manhattan in free wireless connectivity. The Alliance announced on Monday that it had added more than 800,000 additional square feet, completed a half-mile plus corridor along Broadway (between Barclay Street and the Battery) and unified its previously separate...
The area blanketed by the Downtown Alliance's free wireless network has grown to include an uninterrupted corridor of coverage on Broadway, between Barclay Street and the Battery, along with similar corridors along Water, South, and Front streets, as well as more than a dozen plazas and parks.