Spring begins tomorrow when the Sun crosses the celestial equator from the southern to the northern hemisphere; the precise moment is 12:15pm EDT. Take part in the Vernal Equinox by observing sunrise due east at 7:00am, sunset due west at 7:07pm and the Sun at its highest point at midday, 1:03pm EDT While the Sun’s...
Where does the celestial equator intersect your horizon?
No matter what your latitude is, it intersects your horizon at points due east and due west. Courtesy EarthSky.org
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and its parks organization have partnered with the sociology faculty at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) to analyze how many people utilize the open spaces within the community, where they come from, and why. Formally titled the “Battery Park City Parks Count and User Survey,” the project aims...
Work seems to have ground to a halt in recent weeks at the site of the new West Thames pedestrian bridge, which has been under construction since November, 2016, although this appears to be a temporary hiatus. The span is being partially funded by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), but its construction is being...
Earlier this week, there appeared to be a single worker at the construction site for the West Thames bridge, and no significant activity -- a situation that has been the norm since mid-February. But officials at the Economic Development Corporation, which is overseeing the project, say that the bridge remain on-budget and within its most recent schedule, which calls for the span to open by the end of this year.
I was one of more than 500 students from Lower Manhattan schools who left our classrooms at 10:00 am on Wednesday morning and assembled in the streets outside to raise our voices in grief and protest, on the one-month anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida that ended 14 young lives. At my school,...
Students from Millennium High School gather at Counties Slip and release 14 balloons, one for each of students murdered in Parkland, Florida one month ago.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1558 – Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman Emperor 1743 – First American town meeting (Boston’s Faneuil Hall) 1757 – On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty “Pour encourager les...
Some sections of Battery Park City are effectively invisible to the City’s 311 service and complaint hub, which fielded 36 million requests in 2016 alone. According to a presentation by Lucian Reynolds at the March 6 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), several areas of New York City that...
The City's 311 system appears to field relatively few complaints and requests for service (represented by yellow circles) from Battery Park City,relative to the rest of Lower Manhattan. But this may be a function of a jurisdictional ambiguity that purges such inquiries from data archives.
