Anthony Notaro, the chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), has issued a candid warning that area residents may wish to keep in mind heading into tomorrow night’s public meeting of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) project. At the May 2 meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee, during a discussion of measures planned by...
1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807, but none were...
An image of Tibet-Kashmir, looking northwest, as photographed L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Lake Ch'in-Tzu-Hu is visible in the upper right, Lake Yen-K'o-Ling-Ts in the lower left centre, and The Korakaram Range in the upper centre portion of the image.
On April 30th, over 800 people celebrated Dutch Kings Day (Koningsdag) in Battery Park City, the celebration of the Dutch King’s Wilem-Alexander of the Netherlands birthday. This Dutch tradition, celebrates with open markets, music and food festivals filled with traditional Dutch games and foods. This years event was organized by T Klokhuis, the Dutch language...
The Downtown Alliance on Monday honored six Lower Manhattan civic leaders with its Exceptional Service Award, which recognizes local luminaries for their contributions to quality of life Downtown. This year’s recipients include the New York Police Department’s Deputy Inspector Mark Iocco and Sergeant Dennis Feldman, both assigned to the First Precinct, in Tribeca. NYPD Deputy...
At a ceremony held in the clubhouse of the Down Town Association on Monday, Alliance president Jessica Lappin (third from right), presented Exceptional Service Awards to (from left), NYPD Deputy Inspector (and First Precinct Commander) Mark Rocco, City Department of Sanitation general superintendent Milton Eng, the City Economic Development Corporation's Joseph Palazzola, Pace University president Stephen Friedman, John Haworth (recently retired from the National Museum of the American Indian), and NYPD Sergeant Dennis Feldman.
When evening twilight deepens, Corvus the Crow takes flight, easily spotted in the south 20 to 30 degrees above the horizon in dark and moderately dark skies. To measure 10 degrees above the skyline, extend an arm at eye level and look out over your closed fist kept hovering above a spot where sky meets...
This year we have brilliant planet Jupiter to guide us to the star Spica and the constellation Corvus the Crow.
1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. It authorized in limited and defined circumstances the use of torture by the Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics. 1602 –...
