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. Day 47, Thursday 30th June. Dense fog again! Gentle breeze from S plus some kind current has pushed us NNE, but the wind seems to […]
Archives for June 2016
June 30
1794 – Native American forces under Blue Jacket attack Fort Recovery. 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory. 1859 – Acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants […]
Letters
To my neighbors in BPC, Last week a cyclist named Olga Evgleska Cook was killed by an automobile driver on Chambers Street and West Street. This could have easily been any one of the residents of Battery Park City, or even worse, one of our children, whether on a bicycle or simply walking home. My […]
The Battery Conservancy Opens Battery Oval
The Battery Conservancy opened the lush, green Battery Oval last weekend with the two-day Battery Fair to celebrate the region’s biodiversity. As downtowners and tourists luxuriated in the thick, new grass, 90 purveyors offered their goods for sale at stands around the perimeter of the beautiful new lawn. A mix of locals and tourists browsed […]
Where History Is Recalled By Those Who Participated
The 9/11 Tribute Center plans to move from its current headquarters, adjacent to the World Trade Center, to a larger space in the Greenwich South section of the Financial District. The move is necessitated by the growth in the Tribute Center’s exhibits and programs, as well as its swelling roster of visitors. The Tribute Center […]
Rowing The Atlantic
After just under 45 days at sea we finally passed 1/3 of the 2900 nm in the wee hours of the morning! The rest should be faster, a lot faster, I hope, but nothing here is for granted. With the same speed I will be in about October 1st. Horrors! But with a reasonable 40 […]
June 29
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway. 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground. 1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey 1874 – Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in […]
Lower Manhattan Has a New High Line
Lower Manhattan’s inventory of uplifting public spaces will increase by one today at 11:45 am, when the new Liberty Park is dedicated and opened. The elevated, one-acre green space (bordered by Liberty, West, Cedar and Greenwich Streets) will connect Battery Park City with the World Trade Center site and the Financial District, spanning a 300-foot […]
EYES TO THE SKY
On the summer solstice, June 20th, I was out in a canoe on a small pond shortly after sunset, botanizing and birding. The sun sets slowly during the weeks on either side of the solstice; daylight lingers in the sky. It was awhile before dusk, when I began to scan the sky for the brightest […]
RiverWatch
Thursday, June 30 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Eastern Caribbean Carnival Sunshine Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; St. John, N.B., Canada Friday, July 1 Norwegian Breakaway Outbound 4:30 pm; Eastern Caribbean Queen Mary 2 Inbound 5:30 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm; Halifax, N.S./Boston, MA Saturday, July 2 Norwegian […]
June 28
1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull. 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. 1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged […]
Rowing The Atlantic
A good day with 11 hours rowing, pleased with the progress, but fairly exhausting and as I write can hardly keep awake! Fog this morning, fog again tonight, but in between was a lot of sunshine and blue skies. And quite hard work… Bright sun meant good charging, topped up all devices, made 15 l […]
The Job Market
Downtown ranks dead last among all communities in the five boroughs for the percentage of unemployed residents, according to the City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the tally of locals who can’t find work may get even smaller tomorrow (Wednesday, June 29), when a job fair at the Conrad New York Hotel (102 […]
June 27
1542 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria,King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. In was the last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. 1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black […]
Rowing The Atlantic
Ok night, but the good drift NNE after my session last night has not lasted, although the direction is at least E of N. Still same, moderate breeze from S, but seas are lumpy, boat rolling more and I suppose it is current playing tricks with us again. Foggy, but the sun is trying hard […]
Letters
To the editor: On June 28 the Democratic registered voters of the tenth congress district will have the right to nominate to re-elect congressman Jerrold Nadler to represent them for another two years. Jerrold Nadler This election more than any other in recent times will determine whether our democratic capitalist system now captured and immobilized […]
Lower Manhattan Forecast: It's Getting Cloudier
The Downtown Alliance has finished rolling out the newest phase of its ongoing effort to blanket Lower Manhattan in free wireless connectivity. The Alliance announced on Monday that it had added more than 800,000 additional square feet, completed a half-mile plus corridor along Broadway (between Barclay Street and the Battery) and unified its previously separate […]
Lower Manhattan Forecast: It’s Getting Cloudier
The Downtown Alliance has finished rolling out the newest phase of its ongoing effort to blanket Lower Manhattan in free wireless connectivity. The Alliance announced on Monday that it had added more than 800,000 additional square feet, completed a half-mile plus corridor along Broadway (between Barclay Street and the Battery) and unified its previously separate […]
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. Day 41, Friday 24th June. I got dressed to go out and set the SA after supper last night when the rain eased, the fog […]
June 24
451 – 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 843 – Vikings destroy Nantes 1441 – Eton College founded by Henry VI 1497 – John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England, believed he found Asia in Nova Scotia 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded 1778 – David Rittenhouse observes (and many others, […]