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Month: November 2016

November 30

Posted on November 30, 2016February 5, 2019

1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later…

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A Whale Named Gotham

Posted on November 30, 2016February 5, 2019

Cetacean Peregrination: A whale in New York Harbor may be a good sign or an ill omen. On the positive side, marine mammals who deserted our waters generations ago (driven away by lethal levels of pollution) now occasionally stop by to check out the newly detoxified bay. On the darker end of the spectrum, whales…

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Prioritizing Kids Over Cars

Posted on November 30, 2016February 5, 2019

The chair of the Youth and Education Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) is proposing that a seldom-used street in the Financial District, located at what will be the front door of a new public school, be turned into a pedestrian plaza. At the November 17 meeting of the School Overcrowding Task Force (a joint…

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EYES TO THE SKY November 28 – December 11, 2016

Posted on November 29, 2016February 5, 2019

An ideal week for planet and stargazing unfolds as November turns to December. Stargazing begins in the afternoon with the setting of the star of our solar system, the sun, as it approaches its most southerly reach on the horizon, nearly directly southwest. Sunset on November 28th is 4:30pm and from December 1 through the…

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November 29

Posted on November 29, 2016February 5, 2019

800 – Charlemagne arrives in Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III. 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. 1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey. 1847 – Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman,…

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Not Exactly a Shore Thing

Posted on November 29, 2016February 5, 2019

It is a rare project that is fully funded, as well as supported by both the public and its elected representatives, but still can’t get off the drawing board. But the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Beach, which (if built) would become the sole access point at which Lower Manhattan residents could step into the water that…

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