Month: October 2018

Frightinerary

You will frightened to hear how many things there are to do with children in and around Lower Manhattan in the days leading up to Halloween. Start this evening with Halloween Teen Night at the Whitney Museum (99 Gansevoort Street, near West Street), where music, dancing, costume making, tarot card readings, and snacks are all...

Run for Knowledge

Battery Park City hosted yet another successful Run For Knowledge on the brisk and windy evening of Friday, October 12th.   PS/IS 276 Kristal Aliyas,  Lucas Rotman and Sara Epstein The event raised funds via running pledges, sponsors, and a finish-line festival to benefit P.S. 89, I.S. 289, and P.S./I.S. 276.   It is one...
First place- Alistair Kiernan 8th grader at IS289 with Second place-Chief Montalvo, 8th grader at IS276

Local Elected Officials: Save Our School

City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewerare pushing back against a plan to close P.S. 150, a highly regarded local school also known as the Tribeca Learning Center. In a letter sent Tuesday, the elected officials urge Stellar Management, the owner of the residential portion of Independence Plaza (the giant housing...

Welcome to the Future

To the editor, re: Go For Broke (BroadsheetDAILY October 23) If I were in retail, this news would scare me to death. SCIFI is here now with a store owners dream: No unemployment insurance, no workers comp, no HR problems, no employee IRS reporting etc etc: In a nutshell: No workers. How many low paid...

October 25

285 – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. 1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. 1861 – The Toronto Stock...
The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as _a degenerated musical system ... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people, warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

Chamber Orchestra of New York’s (CONY) season kicks off on November 16th, at Carnegie’s Weill Hall. Led by Maestro Salvatore Di Vittorio, the orchestra’s mandate is to elevate young musical artists’ careers. CONY principal flutist  Ginevra Petrucci Principal flutist, Ginevra Petrucci, mentioned in Huffington Post’s Italian edition that CONY provides her opportunities otherwise unavailable. She...
Jonathan Rush elevates CONY at Carnegie's Weill Hall