Volunteers Needed

On Monday, January 23, 2017, the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) will conduct its annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) Count, as part of an ongoing effort to engage and help bring indoors New Yorkers experiencing homelessness. On the night of HOPE, with the assistance of fellow New Yorkers, volunteers help canvass parks, subways, and...

January 13

532 – Nika riots continue in Constantinople. 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV. 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks...
The "Soybean Car" was actually a plastic-bodied car unveiled by Henry Ford on August 13, 1941 at Dearborn Days, an annual community festival.

Campus Rumpus

Finding vast wealth hidden in your own backyard sounds like a good thing, but not when the wealth is claimed by somebody else and you have to cope with the chaos that its discovery unleashes. This may be the dilemma that Lower Manhattan will face if real estate developers ever gain control of the campus...
The Borough of Manhattan Community College campus sits on six square blocks of prime land along the Hudson River waterfront.

January 12

1808 – John Rennie’s scheme to defend St Mary’s Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture. 1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 1915 – The United States...
St Mary's Church, Reculver, was founded in the 7th century as either a minster or a monastery on the site of a Roman fort at Reculver, which was then at the north-eastern extremity of Kent in south-eastern England.

Offshore Slips Moorings at North Cove

Brookfield Properties has designated its subcontractor, International Global Yachting (IGY), to manage community sailing programs at North Cove Marina starting this season, which begins in less than four months. IGY, which operates a chain of luxury yacht harbors around the world, but has never managed a sailing camp or school before, will be taking over...

January 11

532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams-the Blues and the Greens-in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. 1569 – First recorded lottery in England. 1571 – Austrian nobility is granted freedom of religion. 1759 – In Philadelphia, the first American life insurance company is incorporated. 1861 – Alabama secedes...
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment