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...
To the editor, Hanging out for hours today on the roof terrace at Gateway. Is it a red-tail? S/he seemed quite at home so I guess s/he’s a new neighbor. Joanne Chernow
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...
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."
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. Current left… Current returned! Day 31, evening. Sunset is within half hour and the west sky is again a spectacle of black and white clouds,...
763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians. 1502 – Christopher...
Rembrandt's Danaë (1636), from the collection of Pierre Crozat has resided in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia since the 18th century. Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx.
On June 15th 1985, the painting was damaged by Bronius Maigys, who threw sulfuric acid on the painting and slashed it with a knife twice. The painting has since been restored.