Data from the City’s Department of Education (DOE) indicates that there may be a correlation between the amount an elementary school spends on each student, and how many applications it receives for each available seat. A further connection may be observed between per-student spending and achievement, as measured by standardized test scores. These parallels can...
335 – Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I. 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion. 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget. 1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across...
A brown pelican coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana On this date, the leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was sealed.
At the time of the stoppage, oil had been leaking continuously into the Gulf of Mexico for 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, 2010
The season began to change slowly, and then fast; darkness falls early. Summer’s longest days, shortest nights have edged to equal daylight and darkness. The Autumnal Equinox occurs on Friday the 22nd at 4 p.m. Sunrise and sunset times are around 12 hours apart for the rest of the month. From September 1 through early...
The Milky Way
Photographer's statement: "Recent developments in camera sensors allow capture of low light images, with less noise. At this writing, Nikon D5 used for this photograph has one of the lowest 'noise' levels available. The 'ISO' setting was 3200 with a 20 second exposure at f2.8 (Nikkor 14mm-24 zoom set to 14mm). Image is stored as RAW. Once captured, image was modified in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) by sharpening, and changing 'curves' to better display the Milky Way. Foreground light is a single light bulb on an outdoor light pole. Note length of exposure captures movement of aircraft as a line."
A member of the State Assembly who sits on a legislative committee that oversees public agencies such as the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) is also a partner in a firm that earns millions of dollars per year giving financial advice to those same agencies. Robert Rodriguez, a Democratic member of the Assembly who represents...
State Assembly member Robert Rodriguez earns more than $100,000 per year as a director at a financial advisory firm that does business with State agencies that he oversees, as a member of the legislative panel the monitors public authorities.
1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage. 1635 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France. 1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington. 1812 – The...
Jimi Hendrix, born in Seattle on November 27, 1942, would have been 75 years old today.
Shari Hyman, the president and chief operating officer of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) since 2014, is resigning to take a senior post with the Westfield retail complex, at the World Trade Center. BPCA chair Dennis Mehiel recounted Ms. Hyman’s tenure at the Authority by citing, “record amounts of new, free, high-quality community programming;...
BPCA president Shari Hyman (show here at center, flanked by Authority vice president Gwen Dawson and chairman Dennis Mehiel) plans to leave the agency, for a senior post at the Westfield World Trade Center retail complex.
