On Sunday (January 28), State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou will convene a Town Hall meeting to gather feedback from constituents, and hear their priorities for policies, legislation, and the budget in Albany this year. Members of the public are invited to participate on panels that will focus on subjects like civil rights and immigration, senior...
State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou will host a public Town Hall meeting on Sunday, to hear from constituents about their concerns and agenda.
AD 41 – Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula’s uncle Claudius as Emperor 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento. 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, flooding the Downtown Community Center and much of Lower Manhattan, it was through the support and resilience of the downtown community that Manhattan Youth was able to recover, rebuild, and continue offering its programming to over 4,500 families. This year, the Manhattan Youth Tritons Swim Team...
Out of 238 contenders, New York has made the shortlist of 20 candidates Amazon is still considering for its second headquarters, a project known as HQ2. The encouraging news is that New York ranks first in an analysis by Anderson Economic Group of locations best suited to the e-commerce giant’s requirements. But the sobering fact...
The Hudson River waterfront in Tribeca, where the red outlines show the area proposed for new landfill, to extend Battery Park City northward and create a 60-acre campus for a possible Amazon headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Such a plan could, the author argues, provide financing for both the Hudson River Park and resiliency measures throughout Lower Manhattan.
393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000....
On 23 January 1960; Trieste reached the ocean floor in the Challenger Deep (the deepest southern part of the Mariana Trench), carrying Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh.This was the first time a vessel, manned or unmanned, had reached the deepest known point of the Earth's oceans.
Onboard systems indicated a depth of 37,799 ft. The descent took 4 hours 47 minutes at a descent rate of 0.9 metres per second (3.0 ft/s).
The temperature in the cabin was 7 °C (45 °F) at the time.
While at maximum depth, the crew unexpectedly regained the ability to communicate with the support ship, USS Wandank, using a sonar/hydrophone voice communications system. At a speed of almost (1 mi/s) - about five times the speed of sound in air - it took about seven seconds for a voice message to travel from the craft to the support ship and another seven seconds for answers to return.
While at the bottom, Piccard and Walsh observed a number of small sole and flounder. Their claim the fish were swimming would prove at least some vertebrate life can withstand the extreme pressure at the oceans' deepest point. They noted that the floor of the Challenger Deep consisted of "diatomaceous ooze". The ascent took 3 hours and 15 minutes.(Wikipedia)
To the editor: Once again, it has become critically, crucially clear that the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) in its collaboration with The Howard Hughes Corp about the future of the Historical Tin Building historical and other actions, past, present and future plans is the WRONG city agency to oversee the current and future existence...
