Year: 2017

At the Confluence of Insight and Incitement

The 16th annual River to River Festival — Lower Manhattan’s annual, free summer arts celebration — kicks off today (Wednesday, June 14) with an opening celebration at Pier A Harbor House (from 6:00 to 8:00 pm) and continues through Sunday, June 25. Between this evening and a week from Sunday, the festival will include more...
"A Body on Wall Street," a dramatic performance that took place on the steps of Federal Hall in the Financial District, during the 2016 River To River Festival. This year's events will include dozens of performances in venues that span Lower Manhattan and Governors Island.

The Ripples Start Here

The 9/11 Tribute Museum reopens today, Tuesday, June 13, in its new home, at 92 Greenwich Street (near the corner of Rector Street), immediately following a 10:30 am ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Museum, formerly known as the 9/11 Tribute Center, now expanded and revamped, was founded in 2006 by the September 11th Families Association, a group...

June 12

910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis. 1429...
President Ronald Reagan delivers the famous line "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

EYES TO THE SKY June 12 – June 25, 2017

Closest, brightest and most visible for the year, planet Saturn rises looking like a gold-tinted star above the southeast horizon around the time the Sun sets opposite, in the northwest. In astronomy, when two celestial bodies appear opposite each other in Earth’s sky, it is known as “opposition.” This year’s Saturn opposition occurs when Earth...
Solargraph from Sashay - Budapest, 2014

Seeking the Hammer Price

One of Battery Park City’s plushest apartments — a four-bedroom, five-bath duplex penthouse with a 350-square-foot terrace — will be auctioned off later this month, with no minimum opening bid, and no minimum winning bid (also known as a “reserve price”). There’s just one catch: You’ll have to travel to Hong Kong if you want...
The view from the terrace of the penthouse duplex that will be sold to the highest bidder in Hong Kong on June 28

June 9

AD 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. AD 68 – The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. 1311...
Secretariat approaching the finish line to win the 1973 Belmont Stakes by a record 31 lengths.