Month: September 2018

Today in History September 4

476 – Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself “King of Italy”, thus ending the Western Roman Empire. 1260 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of Manfred, King of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.  1282 – Peter III of Aragon becomes the King...
The Pearl Street Station

EYES TO THE SKY September 4 – 16, 2018

My address: Planet Earth, Orion spur, the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy “A galaxy is a gargantuan collection of stellar and interstellar matter – stars, gas, dust, neutron stars, black holes – isolated in space and held together by its own gravity. Astronomers are aware of literally millions of galaxies beyond our own.” Astronomy...
Pinwheel Galaxy LRGB by Kenneth Blumberg, August 2018 at Rockland Astronomy Club Summer Star Party, Plainfield, MA

Teen Training in the Arts

The Whitney Museum is now accepting applications for its fall, 2018 program, Youth Insights Artists.    The classes, which pair high school students with professional, contemporary artists, run from late September through the end of the year, with the option of meeting on either Wednesday or Thursday afternoons, from 4:00 to 6:30 pm.     The...
The Whitney Museum

Joint Pain

Two local elected officials are demanding meaningful consultation with the community before the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio moves ahead with a plan to create a giant new prison complex in Lower Manhattan. City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will lead a public Town Hall meeting to discuss these...
The Louis J. Lefkowitz State Office Building, bounded by Centre, Worth, Leonard, and Baxter Streets, is the proposed site for a new 40-story jail complex, which would preserve the facade of the existing building, but gut its interior and perch a new tower on top.