Month: September 2016

PARADE TODAY

NYPD EMERALD SOCIETY PIPES & DRUMS 9/11 MEMORIAL PARADE FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 12:00PM BROADWAY AND LIBERTY STREET PARADE ROUTE: PROCEEDS SOUTH ON BROADWAY THROUGH BATTERY PARK CITY CONCLUDES AT THE NYPD POLICE MEMORIAL IN NORTH COVE MARINA

Today in History

1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the ‘United States’. 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington. 1947 – First case of a computer bug: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University....
Ed Sullivan and Elvis

Today in History

1264 – The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din (rabbinical court) jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated (established as law) by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. 1655 – Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during...

Bon Voyage Peking

Yesterday morning at about 8:30am, the barque Peking pushed off from her pier at the South Street Seaport for one last time to begin her final trip home to the land of her birth, Hamburg, Germany. Peking eased out into the slack tide of the East River and was assisted by two Henry Marine tugs....

AMERICAN DUNKIRK: THE WATERBORNE EVACUATION OF MANHATTAN ON 9/11

One of the great but unrecognized stories of 9/11 is the impromptu response by mariners that resulted in the biggest evacuation by water in history. A new book American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 examines what lessons can be learned from this mobilization of boats and ships that rescued countless people following...
A Coast Gaurd rescue team from Sandy Hook, NJ, responds to the terrorsit attack Sept. 11, 2001.