Rowing Across the Atlantic

Dr. Stein Hoff began his attempt rowing across the Atlantic on Sunday morning off the Battery in his rowboat named FOX II, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage. Here was his last report : Position 40 15 N, 071 30W 14.40 UTC (10.40 NY) “Cold, clear, hazy...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his attempt rowing across the Atlantic last week the Battery in his rowboat named FOX II, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

Perambulation of Probability

On Wednesday, May 11, 150 New Yorkers created the largest-ever human bell curve, while participating in the MoMath Random Walk of Probability on Wall Street, an interactive math event celebrating the uncertainty that governs our world. Participants gathered in front of 28 Liberty (the former Chase Plaza) at 6pm and were given instructions by Glen...

Street Eats That Can't Be Beat

Taste of Tribeca, the annual food-apalooza that benefits P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, will celebrate its 22nd anniversary this Saturday (May 21) with delectables from more than 60 local restaurants, including seven (Bubby’s Tribeca, Bouley, Duane Park Patisserie, Gigino Trattoria, The Odeon, Tribeca Grill, and Walker’s) that have participated every year since 1994. Among the...
The Taste of Tribeca food festival brings world-class cuisine outdoors, to fund arts and enrichment programs at P.S. 150 and P.S. 234

Street Eats That Can’t Be Beat

Taste of Tribeca, the annual food-apalooza that benefits P.S. 234 and P.S. 150, will celebrate its 22nd anniversary this Saturday (May 21) with delectables from more than 60 local restaurants, including seven (Bubby’s Tribeca, Bouley, Duane Park Patisserie, Gigino Trattoria, The Odeon, Tribeca Grill, and Walker’s) that have participated every year since 1994. Among the...
The Taste of Tribeca food festival brings world-class cuisine outdoors, to fund arts and enrichment programs at P.S. 150 and P.S. 234

Blue Sky Proposal

If you live, work, or attend school south of Canal Street, getting from Point A to Point B has never seemed harder. But a visionary real estate entrepreneur is proposing to whisk commuters in and out of Lower Manhattan at speeds that would make L train riders want to burn their MetroCards. This comes against...
A rendering of the first phrase of the proposed East River Skyway, which would shuttle passengers between Williamsburg and the Lower East Side in five minutes

Today in History

332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. 1096 – First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany 1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land 1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta. 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John...
Apollo 10 launched in 1969