Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra at the Melville Gallery

On June 10, Gary Fagin, longtime Seaport resident and founder/music director of Lower Manhattan’s Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra (KCO), hosted the organization’s last event of the 2015/2016 season: the Hurrah for the Harbor soirée in the Melville Gallery of the South Street Seaport Museum. The program honored local parks and 100 years of the National Park Service, and...
The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra at the South Street Seaport's Melville Gallery

Letters

To the editor, I was seriously pissed as I read an article about the Battery Park City Authority’s interest in removing the colonnade on South End Avenue. The street as it is, is pleasant and allows choices of sun or shade and so on. However my more serious question is why the BPCA continues to...
South End Avenue colonnade

BPCA Offers to Allow Elected Officials to Speak at Its Board Meetings, But Residents Will Have to Submit Comments on Paper

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) is modifying its ban on residents and other members of the public speaking at Authority board meetings, but not enough to satisfy elected officials and community leaders who have long criticized the policy. At the June 8 meeting of the BPCA’s board, Authority chairman and chief executive officer Dennis...
BPCA board chairman Dennis Mehiel: "If any member of the public, if somebody wants to present written comments to the board, on one of our agenda items, it would be noted and included in the minutes. And that's as far as I think that it's reasonable for us to go."

Rowing The Atlantic

Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage. His Latest Post: Day 28 continued. As you can see from my position, another no row day.  A good day, all the same, as I...
Dr. Hoff rowing FOXII photo by Stanley Fine

June 13

313 – The Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, is posted in Nicomedia. 1381 – The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace. 1514 – Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest...
Jacques Henri Lartigue was a French photographer and painter, known for his photographs of automobile races, planes and Parisian fashion female models

EYES TO THE SKY June 13 – 26, 2016

The numbers look good and the effect celebratory. The earliest sunrises of the year in our locale, 5:24am EDT (4:24 EST), began on June 11 and continue through the 18th. Summer Solstice, when the northern hemisphere is at full tilt towards the sun, occurs on June 20 at 6:34pm, while the Strawberry Moon reaches full...
Analemma at 7 a.m. in Kumagaya, Saitama, Japan during 2013. Photographed by Masayuki Shiraishi. Used with permission and thanks. Courtesy EarthSky.org