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Battery Park City’s own New American Youth Ballet (NAYB) will present next Sunday (May 22) a dance adaptation of “Someday,” the elegy to motherhood by children’s book author Alison McGhee. The dancers will be led by NAYB director and choreographer Elizabeth Flores and accompanied by a full, 40-piece orchestra, performing original music by Alan Turry,...
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has forced out its only senior executive who actually lives in the community, Robin Forst, according to multiple sources directly familiar with the situation. Ms. Forst has served as the BPCA’s vice president of external relations, a post that encompassed dealings with the community, other government agencies, and the...
This Sunday, May 15th at 8am, Dr. Stein Hoff, will begin his attempt at rowing across the Atlantic, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen by Stanley Fine It took an arduous search with a blueprint map in hand, in the “potter’s field” section of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery. But I finally found the...
George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen in their rowboat FOX
Join the Tribeca Chamber Players and pianist Peter Basquin on Sunday, May 15 at 2pm as they perform Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81 in a free presentation in the Great Hall at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center. Written in late 1887 – at a time when melody was king –...
609 – Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church 1110 – Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola, Italian Dominican friar and an influential contributor to the politics of Florence. He vehemently preached against the moral corruption of much of the clergy at the time, and his main opponent...
