Year: 2017

The Girls with the Golden Arms

The P.S. 276 Chargers softball team ended their season on Sunday, June 12, by winning their first-ever NYC Championship, 14-9, at Red Storm Field at St. John’s University. The team, made up of 14 energetic and spunky sixth, seventh, and eighth graders, had an incredibly strong season this year, winning all but their first game....
From left to right: Leah Meyerson, Haley Torgan, Grace Kirwin, Andrea Ip, Olivia Mazuel, Savanna Munroe, Ella Carter  with coaches Zane Holmes, Jon Carey and Ryan Bucci

Falsely Accused

A professor at the Pratt Institute who harnesses publicly available data to address urban-planning questions has discovered that the New York Police Department (NYPD) wrote more than $19,000 in tickets for a legal parking space in Battery Park City. Ben Wellington, who teaches at Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and also writes the I Quant...
This curb cut on Chambers Street, near the entrance to Stuyvesant High School, is a legal parking space under City regulations issued in 2009. But the NYPD wrote more than $19,000 in tickets to cars parked there in the last 30 months.

June 20

451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius’ battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. 1248 – The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter. 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the ‘United States’. 1789...

Complimentary Culture

Spend tonight (Tuesday, June 20) exploring the City’s history and heritage at the fourth annual Night at the Museums, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. The event, part of the 2017 River to River Festival, will give locals and tourists alike the chance to see Lower Manhattan’s diverse range of cultural institutions and historical sites —...
The Custom House at One Bowling Green houses both the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian Institute and the National Archives at New York City.

June 19

1306 – The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America. 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields...
The first Strictly Stock race was contested on June 19, 1949, at Charlotte (North Carolina) Speedway, a 3/4-mile dirt track.

The Descent of You

Tucked away on the third floor of the U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green, above the National Museum of the American Indian, is an unassuming room filled with a few dozen computers, some printers, and a couple of staff members and volunteers. Give that this office is the National Archives at New York City, it...