Month: May 2017

Upping Their Game

Coming off a wave of recent facility upgrades and already planning for more, the P3 Baseball program at Pier 40, “wants to be known as premier baseball and softball facility in Manhattan and beyond,” says Bob Score, a onetime board member (and now the facility manager) with the organization, who spearheaded the campaign to improve...

May 17

1536 – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage is annulled. 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement. 1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. 1954 – The US Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education...
Watergate began with a burglary in June 1972 and ended with a president's resignation in August 1974. In between, during the summer of 1973, a special Senate Committee held hearings, co-chaired by Sens. Sam Ervin (D-N.C.) and Howard Baker (R-Tenn.), to investigate the Watergate scandal.

Summer Breeze Seen in North Cove

Spotted on the plaza at North Cove last week is the classic, 1920s yacht tender “Breeze.” At the turn of the past century, the world famous yacht designer Nathaniel Herreshoff, provided these beautiful rowing boats as tenders to his large yacht clients. They were light weight rowboats designed for two persons to go ashore or...

Five Years Later, and Still No Plan

Anthony Notaro, the chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), has issued a candid warning that area residents may wish to keep in mind heading into tomorrow night’s public meeting of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) project. At the May 2 meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee, during a discussion of measures planned by...

May 16

1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807, but none were...
An image of Tibet-Kashmir, looking northwest, as photographed L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Lake Ch'in-Tzu-Hu is visible in the upper right, Lake Yen-K'o-Ling-Ts in the lower left centre, and The Korakaram Range in the upper centre portion of the image.

Koningsdag Celebrated in Battery Park City

On April 30th, over 800 people celebrated Dutch Kings Day (Koningsdag) in Battery Park City, the celebration of the Dutch King’s Wilem-Alexander of the Netherlands birthday. This Dutch tradition, celebrates with open markets, music and food festivals filled with traditional Dutch games and foods. This years event was organized by T Klokhuis, the Dutch language...