Tribeca Nocturne

Immigrant Pianist Who Inspired Federal Legislation is Honored
Dr. Tereza Lee

A Tribeca Tradition

The Church Street School for Music and Art will host its annual weekend Gingerbread House Decorating Workshops beginning tomorrow December 3 and 4, and again on Dec 10 and 11, 17 and 18. To register, or request information, please call 212-571-7290 or click here. The Church Street School for Music and Art is located  at...

Toques for Tots

Starting this weekend, Asphalt Green will be hosting a three-part series of Saturday cooking class for kids, aged five to nine years old, in partnership with Butter Beans, a group that provides school lunches and food education programs at 15 independent schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The Asphalt Green program will focus on the...

December 1

800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment...

Napkins Please

Steve Gordon feels most inspired after two vodka grapefruit drinks. His artistic muses often include sushi chefs and characters he observes at NYC bars. His father, Harry, also an artist, advised him that being an artist was a horrible way to make a living. So Steve pursued the law but stayed true to the arts,...

Global Questions, Local Answers: Climate Change

(Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series that will explore questions and answers of national and international significance raised at Senator Daniel Squadron’s recent Community Town Hall meeting. This installment focuses on the issue of global warming.) At the November 15 Community Town Hall meeting hosted by State Senator Daniel Squadron, a...
State Senator Daniel Squadron: "Whenever there's a government you're not happy with, or that gives you reason to doubt that it's acting constitutionally, lawfully, and within the values that we as a community and a nation share, we need to be ready for a crisis to occur."

November 30

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...
The mighty Flying Scotsman flying through Radlett station at approximately 7:56am on 4th June 2016 on its way to York.