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June 12, 2017

EYES TO THE SKY June 12 – June 25, 2017

Closest, brightest and most visible for the year, planet Saturn rises looking like a gold-tinted star above the southeast horizon around the time the Sun sets opposite, in the northwest. In astronomy, when two celestial bodies appear opposite each other in Earth’s sky, it is known as “opposition.” This year’s Saturn opposition occurs when Earth...
Solargraph from Sashay - Budapest, 2014
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June 12, 2017

Seeking the Hammer Price

One of Battery Park City’s plushest apartments — a four-bedroom, five-bath duplex penthouse with a 350-square-foot terrace — will be auctioned off later this month, with no minimum opening bid, and no minimum winning bid (also known as a “reserve price”). There’s just one catch: You’ll have to travel to Hong Kong if you want...
The view from the terrace of the penthouse duplex that will be sold to the highest bidder in Hong Kong on June 28
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June 9, 2017

June 9

AD 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. AD 68 – The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer’s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. 721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse. 1311...
Secretariat approaching the finish line to win the 1973 Belmont Stakes by a record 31 lengths.
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June 9, 2017

The Parish Notices

When I first meet Jason Radmacher in the entrance to John Street Methodist Church, I’m struck by two things: his powerful and resonant voice, and the comfort and familiarity he exudes as we walk through the church. I’m expecting him to bring me to a side room for our interview, but instead, he peeks his...
Jason Radmacher
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June 8, 2017

June 8

632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina. 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles. 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England. 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins...
The transit, or passage, of Venus across the face of the Sun in 2004. The most recent transit of Venus before this was in 1882.
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June 8, 2017

To Beautify FiDi

The Downtown Alliance is leading a push to warm up the “frozen zone” surrounding the New York Stock Exchange, a security perimeter that bars most vehicles, slows pedestrians, and generally shreds the fabric of the surrounding streetscape. On May 8, Jessica Lappin, president of the Alliance, led a presentation before the Land Use, Zoning, and...
The area of the Financial District that the Downtown Alliance aims to enhance is bounded by Pine Street on the north, William Street on the east, Beaver Street on the south, and Broadway on the west. These borders roughly correspond to the security zone surrounding the New York Stock Exchange that has remained in effect for more than 15 years.
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