Month: March 2019

The Event of the Season

Church Street School for Music and Art will host The Event, its annual fundraising gala, on Tuesday, March 5 (from 6:30 to 10:30 pm), at the glamorous Tribeca Rooftop located at Two Desbrosses Street. The Event  will honoring local residents Winsome Brown and Claude Arpels and Lisa de Armas and Joe MacIsaac. The gala will...
The annual fundraiser for Church School for Music and Art aka The Event

Preventing Trash-pocalypse

With more than 60,000 residents crammed into one square mile, Lower Manhattan has an endless supply of one commodity: garbage, which accumulates by the hundreds of tons every 24 hours. Add to this mix thousands of new apartments planned for the neighborhood in coming years (many of them in “super-tall” highrises), narrow streets laid out...
The accumulation of street trash throughout Lower Manhattan

Eyes to the Sky March 4 – 17, 2019

At this moment every year, we meet to observe with delight the first signs of spring in the sky, before the earth thaws. The increasing light and heat of the Sun and the re-appearance of spring stars Regulus and Arcturus in the evening sky are heralds of flowering elm trees, blooming willows and alders, redwing blackbirds, and,...
Arcturus and the Sun

Today in History March 4

51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).1675 – John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England 1681 – King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania 1774 – First sighting of Orion nebula by William Herschel 1793 – Washington’s second inauguration speech: “Fellow...
Hindenburg over lower Manhattan

In Memoriam: Tom Goodkind

Lower Manhattan has lost a leader, an advocate, an artist, and a renaissance man. Tom Goodkind died on Thursday morning, after waging a long battle against chronic illness. He was 65 years old. A longtime resident of Gateway Plaza, in Battery Park City, Mr. Goodkind also served for decades on Community Board 1 (CB1), where...
Tom Goodkind

Today in History March 1

*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. *1562 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion. *1628 – Writs issued by Charles I...
Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla