Year: 2017

A Bite-Sized Bacchanal

Taste of Tribeca, the annual food-fest that benefits P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, will celebrate its 23rd anniversary tomorrow Saturday (May 20) with delectables from more than 65 local restaurants, including seven (Bubby’s Tribeca, Bouley, Duane Park Patisserie, Gigino Trattoria, The Odeon, Tribeca Grill, and Walker’s) that have participated every year since 1994. Among the...
332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd’s accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal. 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential...
Mathew Brady, "USS Sangamon", ca.1864-1865, salt print

EYEWITNESS

Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise spent the past year photographing 31 Holocaust survivors who are part of the Museum’s Speakers Bureau and Gallery Educators. Eyewitness brings Holocaust survivors into the community with the Museum’s first public art installation. The second phase of monumental installation, Eyewitness by photojournalist B.A. Van Sise was unveiled at the Museum of...
EYEWITNESS exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park City

Upping Their Game

Coming off a wave of recent facility upgrades and already planning for more, the P3 Baseball program at Pier 40, “wants to be known as premier baseball and softball facility in Manhattan and beyond,” says Bob Score, a onetime board member (and now the facility manager) with the organization, who spearheaded the campaign to improve...

May 17

1536 – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage is annulled. 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement. 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. 1954 – The US Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education...
Watergate began with a burglary in June 1972 and ended with a president's resignation in August 1974. In between, during the summer of 1973, a special Senate Committee held hearings, co-chaired by Sens. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) and Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), to investigate the Watergate scandal.

Summer Breeze Seen in North Cove

Spotted on the plaza at North Cove last week is the classic, 1920s yacht tender “Breeze.” At the turn of the past century, the world famous yacht designer Nathaniel Herreshoff, provided these beautiful rowing boats as tenders to his large yacht clients. They were light weight rowboats designed for two persons to go ashore or...