Month: March 2017

PLAY BALL!

The permit process to use Governors Island’s sports fields is now open! The ballfields are sized for Little League baseball or adult softball. The outfields of these fields can also be used for soccer or other field sports. The two natural turf ballfields can be configured for Little League baseball and adult softball or for...

Things Come to Those Who Wait

A waiting list for affordable apartments in the Seaport neighborhood opened today, but may not remain available for long: the State’s Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) agency says that only the first 500 applications will be considered. The apartments are part of Historic Front Street, an 2005 restoration of 11 landmarked buildings — alongside the...
The Historic Front Street development contains both landmarked and contextual structures, as well as affordable apartments - for which the waiting list is now open.

March 3

521 – Magellan discovers Guam 1646 – Born in London, Joseph Jenckes arrived in Lynn Massachusetts around 1643. Three years later he was awarded the first patent in North America by the General Court of Massachusetts, for the scythe, an agricultural tool used for clearing grass and reaping crops. The basic scythe design remained in...
1817 illustration of a Polish peasant sharpening a scythe. Drawn by Jan Piotr Norblin, engraved by Philibert-Louis Debucour

EYES TO THE SKY March 6 – 19, 2017

Wake up early and go out, as in a dream, to rendezvous with a ringed planet, a giant scorpion, a centaur that is an archer and the king of the gods planet. Constellations that appear in winter’s pre-dawn sky are most familiar seen as patterns of summer nights, so it is particularly intriguing to see...

The Academy Awards of the Atheneum World

Quick: Name a single location Downtown where you can go for a Zen meditation class, tax filing help, story time for toddlers, crayon coloring for adults, and Lego building for all ages? Hint: All of the above are offered free of charge, which rules out psychologist’s office you were probably thinking of. The answer is...

What the Traffic Will Bear

A coalition of six elected officials representing Lower Manhattan are urging the City’s Transportation Commissioner to undertake a study of how vehicles and pedestrians move around Lower Manhattan, to address issues related to safety, sanitation and crowding. In a February 14 letter to Polly Trottenberg, who heads the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT), U.S. Congressman...