An unidentified female bicyclist was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at the corner of West and Chambers Streets on Saturday evening, shortly before 8pm. The driver of the vehicle that allegedly hit the woman reportedly continued driving, but stopped two blocks away, where he was arrested. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said...
The scene at Chambers and West Streets on Saturday night_ shortly after a hit-and-run driver allegedly slammed into a female cyclist (who has yet to be identified) and killed her.
Here’s his latest post:. Why am I here? Day 26. Thursday 9th June. I got through the night without any more proper knock-downs. But plenty seas growling down on me as if saying they like to and me thinking they will. Once more, I had decided, and out goes the sea anchor. I had hatch...
671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”. 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created...
Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku.
A venerable elder statesman of the Chinese food culture has arrived in Battery Park City. Wellman Wu, proprietor of the legendary Peking Duck House restaurants on Mott Street and East 53rd Street, recently opened Ningbo, at 21 South End Avenue, overlooking South Cove. In the late 1970s and early 80s, when Chinese food was considered...
New York prides itself on cutting-edge credentials in more categories than there are lights on Broadway, but in one pecking order Gotham is still stalled forlornly in the Twentieth Century. Rated by the energy efficiency of its buildings, New York is in the middle of the pack among the developed world’s major cities. Bob Schneck,...
VOLKSsHouse, the single-family home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Mr. Schneck helped to develop. The structure uses 90 percent less energy than a traditional home, generates itself what little power it uses, and was built for less than the cost of similarly sized ordinary house.
New York prides itself on cutting-edge credentials in more categories than there are lights on Broadway, but in one pecking order Gotham is still stalled forlornly in the Twentieth Century. Rated by the energy efficiency of its buildings, New York is in the middle of the pack among the developed world’s major cities. Bob Schneck,...
VOLKSsHouse, the single-family home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Mr. Schneck helped to develop. The structure uses 90 percent less energy than a traditional home, generates itself what little power it uses, and was built for less than the cost of similarly sized ordinary house.
