All’s Fare

The 15th annual Dine Around Downtown food festival will be held today (Wednesday, June 8), from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, at 28 Liberty Plaza (enter at Nassau and Liberty Streets). More than 40 restaurants from the length and breadth of Lower Manhattan will come together, hosted by chef, cookbook author, and Food Network star...

FiDi Resident, Yuh-Line Niou Launches Run for Assembly Seat

Financial District resident Yuh-Line Niou has entered the race to claim the Democratic nomination for the State Assembly seat representing the 65th District, once held by former Speaker Sheldon Silver (who was convicted of corruption charges in November) and recently won in a special election by Lower East Side community leader Alice Cancel. On Monday...
Financial District resident Yuh-Line Niou declares her candidacy for the New York State Assembly: “Our schools are still overcrowded, the right of workers to organize and earn fair wages is still under attack, tenants are still being harassed out of their homes and too many families still struggle every day to make ends meet.”

Rowing Across the Atlantic

Here’s his latest post:. Harbo & Samuelsen’s day. Day 23, Monday 6th June. On this day, 120 years ago, Georg Harbo, 30 and “Frank” (Gabriel) Samuelsen, 26, started their row towards Europe. Their boat was an 18,5′ open fishing boat – a dory – similar to the boats they used when fishing and clamming off...
Dr. Hoff rowing FOXII photo by Stanley Fine

June 7

1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins. 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law. It was passed by the House of Commons in 1628 in response to years of abuse by the King regarding forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause,...
Mississippi Segregation Photo by Marion Post Wolcott

Ketch Brewhouse

In 1977, four optimistic men opened Captain’s Ketch, a seafood restaurant, in the iconic American International Building at 70 Pine Street that had recently been bought by the American International Group (AIG). It was both a bold and a smart move, for while the city was in a crime- and financial catastrophe-driven funk there were...

Ventura is Back!

The historic sailing yacht Ventura, commissioned in 1919, has returned to North Cove.  Unlike past years (decades, actually) she is now sailing from the south side of the marina, between the sailing school and Shearwater. Long-time skipper and marina tenant Captain Pat Harris says he is happy with the new location.  “I’m really pleased that IGY/Brookfield has...