All’s Well That Mends Well

Bring Them Your Torn Jeans, Your Broken Jewelry, Your Malfunctioning Appliances Yearning to Work Again

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.

A Whale Named Gotham

Cetacean Peregrination: A whale in New York Harbor may be a good sign or an ill omen. On the positive side, marine mammals who deserted our waters generations ago (driven away by lethal levels of pollution) now occasionally stop by to check out the newly detoxified bay. On the darker end of the spectrum, whales...

Prioritizing Kids Over Cars

The chair of the Youth and Education Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) is proposing that a seldom-used street in the Financial District, located at what will be the front door of a new public school, be turned into a pedestrian plaza. At the November 17 meeting of the School Overcrowding Task Force (a joint...
Tricia Joyce, chair of Community Board 1's Youth and Education Committee, and Paul Hovitz (vice chair of Community Board 1) make the case for a new pedestrian plaza in front of the elementary school that will soon be built on Trinity Place.

EYES TO THE SKY November 28 – December 11, 2016

An ideal week for planet and stargazing unfolds as November turns to December. Stargazing begins in the afternoon with the setting of the star of our solar system, the sun, as it approaches its most southerly reach on the horizon, nearly directly southwest. Sunset on November 28th is 4:30pm and from December 1 through the...
December 7 - 20_ 45 minutes - 1 hour after sunset. Fomalhaut off to the left side of this image. Diagram courtesy of EarthSky.org