Month: April 2018

April 6

46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus. 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders,...
Don Rickles on Johnny Carson

The Courage to Remember

Throughout the remainder of this month, the Museum of Jewish Heritage (36 Battery Place, near First Place) will host a multi-week remembrance of the Holocaust, which will continue through April 26. During this period, admission to the Museum is free, and operating hours are extended to 8:00 pm on Mondays through Thursdays. Programs for the...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage will host a series of free programs throughout April to commemorate the Holocaust.

Today in History April 5

1566 – Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces. 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on...
Howard Hughes flying over Lower Manhattan

Hope Springs Maternal

The Tribeca Performing Arts Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College will present Are You My Mother?-a stage musical version of the classic 1960 book for children by P.D. Eastman, about a lost baby bird that mistakes a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a cow for its mother. It happens on Sunday, April 8,...

Prescription: A Dose of Loss

The Battery Park City community lost its oldest business and a cherished local institution on Wednesday, when the Battery Park Pharmacy closed down after 35 years of dispensing medicine and comfort to residents. “We have served three generations of people who live here,” recalled a tearful Yon Kwack, the store’s owner. “We now have grandchildren...
The Battery Park Pharamacy

EYES TO THE SKY April 2 – 15, 2018

The pattern of a great lion outlined in stars, from billowy mane to tucked tail, climbs in the east-southeast as darkness deepens on early spring evenings. The head of Leo the Lion is a broad arc of stars that leads down to the constellation’s brightest star, bluish-white Regulus, Latin for “little king.” Leo’s body stretches...
Leo as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c. 1825