Month: March 2017

Battery Park City Day Nursery Celebrates 30 Years

Hundreds of parents and kids spanning three generations gathered at Six River Terrace on February 11th to celebrate 30 years of service to the community by the Battery City Day Nursery. The 30th Anniversary celebration featured music by Lou Gallo, a performance by the American Youth Ballet, with lots of food and games for parents...

March 3

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau. 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New...
Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and named after another USS Nautilus SS-168, that served in World War II, Nautilus was launched in 1954. Because her nuclear propulsion allowed her to remain submerged far longer than diesel-electric submarines she was the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole in 1958.

Flip this Hotel

To the editor: I was very confused by the article below regarding the ‘Flip this Hotel’ (BroadsheetDAILY March 1). You stated Hidrock paid $28 million for the property, which was only the land. You fail to mention the fact Hidrock had to build a hotel on the land and the cost of building the hotel...

For Literary Lions, with Cubs

When asked to reflect on the Lion’s Head, the legendary West Village tavern, newspaperman Pete Hamill once disputed its reputation as a bar for writers with drinking problems, insisting instead that, “it’s a bar for drinkers with writing problems.” Something similar might be said for Pen Parentis, the Lower Manhattan-based, literary nonprofit that is not...
Parent writers at a recent Pen Parentis Salon, Helen Wan, Karl Jacoby, Shani Gilchrist, and curator Christina Chiu

March 2

537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under King Vitiges begins the siege. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off. 1498 – Vasco da Gama’s fleet visits the Island of Mozambique. 1657 – Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo...
The Flying Fortress Lucky Lady ll landing after her round-the-world non-stop flight

A Quarrel of Sparrows

This gathering of sparrows, apparently seeking the fellowship of their own kind as solace against the rigors of winter, struck us as an apt metaphor for contentious times, and made us wonder whether humans couldn’t learn something from the example of feathered friendship. This, in turn, made us curious about the collective name for a...