Month: September 2016

GRAD STUDENT SEEKS HELP Locally-grown graduate student seeks programmers with knowledge of C to take part in a study on programmer misattribution and imitation. Two hours of your time gets you a tiny Amazon credit and a lot of appreciation. Email SpoofingStudyUW@gmail.com EXPERIENCED NURSE’S AIDE with excellent BPC references seeks FT day or night position. Skilled...

Today in History September 7

1764 – Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Otherwise known as The Commonwealth, this dualistic state came into being through the Union of Lublin, establishing an elective monarchy. The union was necessary directly for the Lithuanians, offering the nation adequate defense from the growing Russian empire. The elected...
Aldwych tube station being used as a bomb shelter in 1940.

Auf Weidersehen Peking

This morning at about 8:30am, depending on weather conditions related to tropical storm Hermine, the barque Peking will push off from South Street Seaport for one last time to begin her final trip home to the land of her birth, Hamburg Germany. Peking will ease out into the slack tide of the East River and,...

Broadsheet Profile: Assembly Candidate Paul Newell

Paul Newell says, with evident pride, “I have spent my professional life fighting to make Lower Manhattan a neighborhood where working people and middle class people can live and earn a living.” In this case, the emphasis in on the word “fighting.” “Eight years ago, I ran for this office,” he recalls, “arguing that we...