Year: 2017

March 13

607 – 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1519 – Cortez lands in Mexico 1639 – Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1677 – Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 1759 – 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1781 – Sir William Herschel sees “comet” which turned out to be...
Ford's Pinto

Impacted Wisdom Truth

State Assembly member Deborah Glick is sponsoring a proposed law that will (if enacted) impose a tax on residential development in New York City, to create a new, dedicated funding stream to build public schools. In a related development, two Lower Manhattan Community Boards and the Community Education Council for District 2 (which covers Lower...

March 9

1497 – Nicolaus Copernicus’ first recorded astronomical observation 1522 – Marten Luther begins preaching his Invocavit Sermons in Wittenberg 1562 – Kissing in public banned in Naples 1745 – Bells for first American carillon shipped from England to Boston 1839 – Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours 1841 – US Supreme...
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A local fascinating lost cultural niche, Tribeca’s Fountain Pen Hospital

To the editor: In an increasingly virally virtual world of seductive enjoyable distraction/ direction/exploration that sometimes diminishes essential human connecting and growth, the real oils, brushes and canvas of personal development (observing, oral sharing, and learning) from the real world around as well as the brand new electronic ones, I would like to share a...

Little Girl, Big Ideas

Lower Manhattan has a new tourist magnet, and she’s about four feet tall. In the small hours of Wednesday morning, “Fearless Girl,” a bronze statue of a young female striking a jaunty, audacious pose, was stealthily dropped off in front of “Charging Bull,” the famous Arturo Di Modica sculpture that has been snarling and pawing...
Hundreds of pedestrians and tourists swarmed around Lower Manhattan’s newest icon on Wednesday: a four-foot tall bronze, known as “Fearless Girl,” who faces off with “Charging Bull.”