July 6

640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under ‘Amr ibn al-‘As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt). 1348 – Pope Clement VI issues a papal bull protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death. 1415 – Jan Hus is condemned as a heretic and then burned at the stake. 1535 – Sir Thomas More is executed for treason...
R34 touching down in Mineola Long Island in 1919

Letters

Dear editor, I read with interest Tammy Meltzer’s comments in the July 1 Broadsheet. I must respectfully disagree. In her letter she states that Liberty Park is not “the Memorial” but an urban pedestrian boulevard. Why can’t it be both? The sphere is not so large that it will impede the physical flow of people...

Valediction: Catherine McVay Hughes

For more than a decade, residents of Lower Manhattan have benefited from the protection, advocacy, and vision of a staunch civic champion. During that time, Catherine McVay Hughes has served not only as chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), but has also lobbied relentlessly for programs to protect the health of Downtown residents affected by...
Catherine McVay Hughes

July 5

328 – The official opening of Constantine’s Bridge built over the Danube by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1811 – Venezuela declares independence from Spain. 1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This is the...
The Shard of London

Rowing The Atlantic

Happy Birthday to United States of America and to your citizens! If I have got my arithmetics right it is 240 years since George Washington declared independence. Going well here. The W wind came a little later than forecast last night, pushing us the right way very nicely, thank you! Waiting for it last night...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

Letters

To the editor: The very moving letter you published by Shelly Mossey about Olga Evgleska Cook’s death with its description of the chaos in parts of our BPC neighborhood re-emphasized my comment yesterday, “Sometimes I wish that our level of civilization in this neighborhood were on a par with our landscaping.” For all the upscale...