Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing back hard against a developer’s plan to erect a large apartment building in the midst of the Tribeca East Historic District. At 312-322 Canal Street (between Church Street and Broadway, Trans World Equities wants to construct a nine story residential tower designed by architect Paul A. Castrucci. Although the...
A rendering of the proposal by developer Trans World Equities to build a nine-story apartment building on Canal Street, between Church Street and Broadway.
AD 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometers. 1381 – Beginning of the Peasants’ Revolt in England. 1431 – Hundred Years’ War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old...
Jean Froissart's Chronicles depicts King Richard II
meeting the rebels from the Peasants' Revolt in 1381.
I first glimpsed the image above as the cover design for astrophysicists Leon Golub and Jay Pasachoff’s latest book, The Sun, to be released around the time of the summer solstice. Lingering with the photograph, its burning radiance and swirling movement seems to convey the formative, essential light at the beginning of our planet’s history....
This image of solar active regions in the corona is a composite of 23 separate images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (designed by a team led by Leon Golub at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The images span the period of January 11, 2015 to January 21, 2016. They were taken through a filter at the wavelength of 171 angstroms, which shows gas at about 1.5 million degrees Fahrenheit. The composite reveals the zones of latitude on the Sun where active regions are most common during the active part of the solar cycle.
Image credit - NASA/SDO/AIA
Assembly member Deborah Glick is sponsoring a bill in her house of the State legislature that would, if enacted, make voting compulsory, with failure to show up at the polls subject to a $10 fine. “The United States has some of the lowest voter turnout rates compared to any other advanced democratic countries in the...
1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded. 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. 1813 –...
Eleven U.S. Navy (USN) and Coast Guard ships, and one Royal Canadian Navy ship, will arrive in New York Harbor at 8 a.m. today. This Parade of Ships marks the start of the 29th year of Fleet Week New York, which has been held almost every year since 1984. During the weeklong celebration, New Yorkers...
