Month: April 2019

EYES TO THE SKY April 29 – May 12, 2019

Evening twilight, end of April, first days of May. image: Starry Night, Judy Isacoff For delight in discovery plan to observe many fleeting moments that mark the movement of the seasons and other special events in the sky this week. Beginning with the short window of evening twilight, bid farewell to the scintillating stars of...
Evening twilight, end of April

Today’s Calendar Monday April 29

1PM Bach + 1 St. Paul’s Chapel This series features one Bach cantata each week paired with a complementary work from composers early to modern. Today, listen to Johann Sebastian Bach Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich sterben?, BWV 8; Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto in E minor for Flute and Recorder, TWV 52:e1; The Choir of...
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Meadow Manager Moves On

A view of Governors Island, which has become a beloved public space for Lower Manhattan residents, from the observatory atop One World Trade Center. Michael Samuelian, the chief of the Trust for Governors Island, the non-profit organization that administers the 172-acre park situated some 800 yards off the tip of Lower Manhattan, will be stepping...
Governors Island picnic

Today in History

The first container ship, the Ideal X was ladened with 58 containers. Today’s largest container ships handle 18,000 1478 – The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de’ Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. 1564 – William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England 1607 – English colonists make landfall at...
Ideal X, the first "container ship"

National Lighthouse Museum

By the end of this century, New York City could have up to six feet of sea level rise, radically reshaping our 520 miles of coastline and impacting more than 100 coastal neighborhoods. A documentary by director Nathan Kensinger, Managed Retreat examines the fates of three Staten Island neighborhoods that were purchased by New York State in...
House on Staten Island photo by Nathan Kensinger

The Weekend Calendar

FRIDAY  APRIL 26 1PM Pipes at One St. Paul’s Chapel Pipes at One concerts feature the celebrated three-manual Noack organ that was inaugurated in the spring of 2018. Today, listen to Julian Wachner, Director of Music, Trinity Church Wall Street. 6:30PM Severe Asthma: Novel Concepts & Therapeutics New York Academy of Sciences Asthma is a...
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