Month: July 2016

July 15

484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. Engraved in three languages, Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Demotic Script, and Ancient Greek, this stone, carved in black granodiorite, is...
The Rosetta Stone

Aqua Fest

The ninth annual City of Water Day will splash, sprinkle, and spritz Lower Manhattan with fun tomorrow (Saturday, July 16) at downtown venues along the Hudson and East Rivers, as well as on Governors Island. The New York area’s largest and most popular waterfront festival, presented by the Waterfront Alliance throughout the five boroughs and...

July 14

1769 – An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California). 1789 – French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille. 1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish,...
The Storming of the Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution

Rowing The Atlantic

Very bad weather, unfortunately, difficult to write lying to SA since 7 pm (10 UTC). 35-40 k from NW and huge seas. Lots of banging and sprays and boat tossing around me. Pretty hellish, actually. Forecast said calming down, it did the opposite. Wind picked up first coupled with cold rain in the morning. I...

Letters

Dear editor, It’s great news to hear about the effort to get our Battery Park City “neighbors” to participate in this year’s Tunnel to Towers race. The more the merrier. However, how about a Kudo or two to your local Tribeca CERT team which has been at the Tunnel to Towers FINISH line doing crowd...

CB1 Aloof, Gives Reproof to Builder's Plan for Roof

Community Board 1 (CB1) has dealt a setback to a real estate developer seeking a zoning waiver that may be worth up to $60 million. This judgement came about at CB1’s June 28 meeting, when the board considered a resolution that would have supported the request by Macklowe Properties to be excused from complying with...
This rendering shows the roof deck on the annex of One Wall Street, which contains approximately 8,000 square feet of space that the developer could use to comply with the zoning requirement for outdoor recreation space, but plans to use instead for a six-floor addition that is slated to contain a private health club and space. The developer estimates the value of this exemption from zoning regulations at approximately $60 million.