Month: July 2016

Rowing The Atlantic

Happy Birthday to United States of America and to your citizens! If I have got my arithmetics right it is 240 years since George Washington declared independence. Going well here. The W wind came a little later than forecast last night, pushing us the right way very nicely, thank you! Waiting for it last night...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

Letters

To the editor: The very moving letter you published by Shelly Mossey about Olga Evgleska Cook’s death with its description of the chaos in parts of our BPC neighborhood re-emphasized my comment yesterday, “Sometimes I wish that our level of civilization in this neighborhood were on a par with our landscaping.” For all the upscale...

Battery Plans for a Jungle Gym, Literally

Forty-eight hours after the historic park at Manhattan’s southern tip celebrated the much-anticipated opening of the Battery Oval, a magnificent, two-acre lawn, Warrie Price, the president of the Battery Conservancy was unveiling the planned, next phase of the park’s ongoing renaissance. “I’m here tonight to talk about the Battery PlayScape, which you will be voting...
An architect's illustration of the Imagination Marsh section, which will contain a village of small houses at the level of the treetop canopy.

Rowing The Atlantic

Day 47, evening. Just lost a long update as I pushed “send”… Short version is another full day of fog, S wind that was moderate, became quite strong and with some rough seas. Not possible to row the ideal 65 degree course, but have managed about 45. At the price of hard, uncomfortable work with...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

July 1

70 – Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem 1517 – First burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands 1517 – Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal 1535 – Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1656 – First Quakers, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin arrive in Bostonand subsequently...
Charles Robert Darwin 1809 - 1882 "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Letters

To the editor: re: Liberty Park The opening of Liberty Park is a beautiful addition to the ever-growing Lower Manhattan neighborhood. It will provide open space for all of the residential buildings in the area as well as a nice place for business people to take a break from the office.  The comparison to the...