Year: 2017

Excellence and Ambivalence

Pupils at six Lower Manhattan public elementary schools are recording stellar scores on their fourth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) exams, putting each of their schools in the top ten percent of all public schools City-wide. According to an analysis by Tom Goodkind — a member of Community Board 1 (CB1), who has been compiling statistics...

Chin: Affordable Housing, Quality of Life, and Storm Resiliency—Plus, a Seat at the Table for Lower Manhattan Residents

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday (September 12), the Democratic primary will effectively decide who will represent Lower Manhattan in the City Council for the coming four years. (Although the general election is in November, the heavily “blue” landscape of Lower Manhattan usually makes the nomination of the Democratic party tantamount to winning the wider contest, and...

September 6

1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. 1522 – The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world. 1620 –...
The flight path of Korean Airline Flight 007

Battery Park City Judged Best in Show

Battery Park City is the best place to live anywhere in the five boroughs if you own a dog, according to the online real estate database company, StreetEasy. An analysis published on August 23 by StreetEasy’s Casey Roberts finds that 63 percent of the rental buildings within the community welcome tenants with dogs, while a...

EYES TO THE SKY September 5 – 17, 2017

A nearly full moon rises in the east-southeast this evening at 7:15pm, synchronized with sunset at 7:22pm on the opposite horizon. The Full Corn Moon reaches full phase about 8 hours later, at 3:04am on the 6th. That makes for viewing on the 5th the closest to full. For those of us who, 2 weeks...

September 5

917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul’s Cathedral, are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died. 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility,...
The Great Fire of London swept through London for four days in September 1666