Very bad weather, unfortunately, difficult to write lying to SA since 7 pm (10 UTC). 35-40 k from NW and huge seas. Lots of banging and sprays and boat tossing around me. Pretty hellish, actually. Forecast said calming down, it did the opposite. Wind picked up first coupled with cold rain in the morning. I...
When the drizzle stopped, I did try fishing for nearly 1 hour. Both with the jig hook I was given by Anders and a “harpe”-a Norwegian line with many lures-usually good for mackrels. I had increasing attention from gulls, they obviously knew what I was trying to do, but with no result… Then it started...
City Council member Margaret Chin is concerned that her office telephone number may have been hijacked by a phone bank seeking to mobilize support for a controversial zoning measure currently under consideration. At Tuesday night’s meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), Paul Leonard, Ms. Chin’s communications director, said, “we got a heads up from a...
Local children play in the public spaces describes by critics as "often underutilized covered walkways" that a recent telephone campaign (which some recipients claim was disguised to appear as if it came from the office of City Council member Margaret Chin) sought to generate support for privatizing and converting into retail space.
1527 – Florence becomes a republic 1606 – 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia 1792 – Denmark abolishes slave trade 1817 – Mississippi River steamboat service begins 1861 – Kentucky proclaims its neutrality Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (1822-1900), inventor of the gas engine 1862 – Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir a Belgian engineer developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. By 1859, Lenoir’s experimentation without...
From the NTSB: "About 1735 e.d.t.,on May 16, 1977, the right landing gear of a New York Airways, Inc., Sikorsky Model S-61L helicopter, N619PA, failed while the aircraft was parked, with rotors turning, on the rooftop heliport of the Pan Am Building in New York, New York.
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has forced out its only senior executive who actually lives in the community, Robin Forst, according to multiple sources directly familiar with the situation. Ms. Forst has served as the BPCA’s vice president of external relations, a post that encompassed dealings with the community, other government agencies, and the...
Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling upon the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and elected officials representing Lower Manhattan to reconvene the Seaport Working Group, a panel of local leaders and stakeholders that met over a four-month period in 2014 and reviewed development proposals for the South Street Seaport. At the end of its...
A rendering of the Howard Hughes Corporation's vision for the landmarked Tin Building, which is to be elevated, moved slightly, and reconfigured as a dining destination. This plan has cleared several regulatory hurdles,
but has yet to break ground.
