Month: June 2016

River To River Festival Offers Free Dance, Music, Theater, and Open-Door Museums

The 15th annual River to River Festival, Lower Manhattan’s annual, free summer arts celebration, began yesterday and will continue through Sunday, June 26. The 11 days of live dance, music, theater and visual arts will present more than 80 separate performances and events, spread across dozens of Lower Manhattan venues, to a total audience of...
Dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey perform "The Set Up" at Cannon's Walk in the South Street Seaport, as part of the 2015 River To River Festival Photo: Darial Sneed

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. Ordeal over – for this time. Day 33, Thursday 16th June. Still here! And optimistic again. Reasonable night, no big splashes. Bar 1010, rising, coolish...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

June 16

1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland 1779 – Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. 1784 – Holland forbids orange clothes 1823 – King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp 1879 – Gilbert & Sullivan’s “HMS Pinafore” debuts at...
Mary, Queen of Scots

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...

Does Battery Park City Deserve a Government Of the People, By the People, For the People?

A grassroots organization called Democracy for Battery Park City (“Democracy4BPC”) has gathered more than 2,200 signatures on a petition that calls upon Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint residents of the community to a majority of the seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). This number represents the equivalent of slightly more...
State Senator Daniel Squadron: "The community is given too weak a voice on the Authority that governs it. As the community's petitioning effort shows, there's broad support for a larger community role on the Board."