Month: January 2019

Not So Alone in Trinity Churchyard

He’s cut quite the figure for more than a century, standing alone in Trinity churchyard. Hamilton – just steps away – is who everyone seems to come for, but then are all drawn to the large bronze looming to the left. All lawyer robe and courtroom wig turned away to face Broadway. Not a hint...
One of the very few colonial officials to find a place in government after American independence, John Watts became a New York State Assemblyman, a U.S. Congressman, and the first judge of Westchester County. Why isn't he smiling?

Calendar Week of Jan 7-11, 2019

JANUARY 8 4PM Bodies on the Gears: Jackson Polys Gibney Dance Summoning red flags, Jackson Polys, supported by a host of proxies in a multimedia lecture performance, targets the aporias formed by desiring indigeneity. Part of Bodies on the Gears, a series of five lecture performances curated by Tom Sellar as part of American Realness...

January 8

307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by Jin Huaidi. 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. 1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom...
Elvis

Letters

To the editor: re: The Deal of the Sentry (BroadsheetDAILY, December 17) This must be a joke!  $2.1 million for what?? All they do is stroll around, looking at their phones or hanging out together on the esplanade. So let me get this straight, $2.1 million to target dog walkers?? Pathetic, to say the least!...

Stele Crazy After All These Years

Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing for local representation on a board created by Governor Andrew Cuomo, to choose a location with Battery Park City for a planned memorial to 2017’s Hurricane Maria (which killed nearly 3,000 residents of Puerto Rico), and oversee its design. In September, on the first anniversary of the devastation wrought...
Battery Park City activists and leaders have a record of opposing plans for additional memorials that they believed conflicted with the interests of the community.

EYES TO THE SKY January 7 – 20, 2019

 “When you think about it, there aren’t many celestial objects that change color…. But now, on January 20, the Moon will have real color, deep color.” Bob Berman, Astronomer* The year begins with celestial dynamics that excite our appetite for beauty and spark our capacity for wonder. The most dramatic event is a total eclipse...
Astrophotographer James Jordan captured this view of the Super Blue Blood Moon at totality from Oakland, California.