1004 – Henry II the Saint crowned King of Italy 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad ex stirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. 1602 – Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world’s first...
A 72-year-old Tribeca artist is facing eviction from the rent-stabilized apartment she has occupied for more than 40 years, after a judge ruled that she illegally rented her home out via Airbnb. Eileen Hickey allegedly posted notices on the website that brokers short-term rentals starting in 2012, which her landlord, Robert Moskowitz detected two years...
An image from the GoFundMe page created by Eileen Hickey, as she sought to raise money to fight eviction from her rent-stabilized apartment in Tribeca.
1027 – Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France 1607 – First permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown, Virginia 1610 – Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne 1643 – Louis XIV becomes King of France aged four 1702 – England and Netherlands declare...
Lewis and Clark
Congress alloted $2,500 to fund the expedition
As twilight deepens, the starlike light of bright Jupiter appears above the southeastern horizon. Jupiter climbs to its highest point around midnight, then descends toward the southwest. On May 8-9, Jupiter, Earth and the Sun lined up, a momentous celestial phenomenon known as “opposition.” Around this time of opposition, the planet is brightest for the...
The planets in our solar system on May 27, 2018.
The sun is the yellow ball at the center. Earth is the 3rd planet, and Jupiter is the 5th planet, from the sun. Earth passed between Jupiter and the sun on May 9, and then Jupiter was directly opposite the sun in our sky, rising at sunset. Now we're offset from that sun-Jupiter line a bit, but Jupiter is still ascending in our eastern sky as the sun descends below our western horizon. Image via Fourmilab.
The September 11 Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) announced in its most recent update that is has awarded upwards of $3.6 billion to more than 19,000 claimants who suffered personal injury as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. The vast majority of these injuries take the form of illness...
The VCF's map of the "exposure zone" that defines geographic eligibility for compensation. A VCF award also requires that the applicant demonstrate his or her presence within this zone between September 11, 2001 and May 30, 2002.
If Downtown seems jammed by day, but sparsely peopled after the sun goes down, you’re not imagining things. A new data visualization tool shows that Lower Manhattan experiences the second biggest differential between day and night populations of any neighborhood in Manhattan — and, by extension, of any location in America. “Manhattan Population Explorer,” an...
By day, Lower Manhattan's total headcount swells to more than 480,000 people, according to "Manhattan Population Explorer," a new data visualization tool that charts the swing in the number of occupants of various neighborhoods every 24 hours. This graphic shows the combined neighborhoods of Battery Park City, the Financial District, the South Street Seaport, Tribeca, Soho, and Little Italy on a typical Wednesday at 2:00 pm.
