June 6

1639 – Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill 1664 – New Amsterdam renamed New York 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world’s first university museum. 1816 – 10″ snowfall in New England, “year without a summer” Mount Tambora was an active volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia and swelled...
Boris Yaro's photograph of Robert F. Kennedy lying wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting. Kneeling beside him is 17 year-old Juan Romero, who was shaking Kennedy's hand when Sirhan Sirhan fired the shots.

Farewell My Pooch

She was a lifelong Gateway resident. So you’ve probably seen her around: soft white coat with tawny markings, including a patch of dark fur around one eye; happy disposition accentuated by a pink tongued smile and until she was slowed by age and a limp, a hop in her step and a perpetual wag in...
Audrey

Hokule'a's Arrival in North Cove

Hokule’a is a 62-foot-long, double-hulled sailing canoe built and navigated in the style of the native Polynesian people: guided by the sun, moon, and stars; by currents, wind, and wave patterns; and by bird and fish behavior.  Hokule’a has crossed thousands of miles of ocean with modern navigation instruments turned off. No cellphones, no GPS,...

Hokule’a’s Arrival in North Cove

Hokule’a is a 62-foot-long, double-hulled sailing canoe built and navigated in the style of the native Polynesian people: guided by the sun, moon, and stars; by currents, wind, and wave patterns; and by bird and fish behavior.  Hokule’a has crossed thousands of miles of ocean with modern navigation instruments turned off. No cellphones, no GPS,...

Ace of Bass

Like so many successful professionals who live in Battery Park City, Evie Dolan works late several nights a week at a job that many would view as glamorous, but she has come to see as part of her daily routine. As with legions of other Downtown natives, she then comes home to her family and...
Twelve-year-old Battery Park City resident Evie Dolan (left) play bass as Katie in the Broadway hit, "School of Rock," alongside Alex Brightman, who stars as Dewey Finn. photo: Matt Murphy

Rowing Across the Atlantic

Here’s his latest post: 41° 49.55 N, 65° 26.19 W 2016-06-02 00:00:00 +0000 Still at sea anchor, rough night, bit better now, wind still ESE. Drifted N 6 n.m., hardly any W, so current going NE, which also explains some of the steep, breaking waves. Must check temp of the sea-Gulf Stream? Still on sea...
Dr. Stein Hoff's location is about the center of this map just south of Nova Scotia