The Thames, It Is a Changin’

After nearly three decades of plans, proposals, and false starts, the West Thames pedestrian bridge broke ground on Tuesday (November 15). At the ceremony, David Emil, president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), which is largely funding the project, said, “I have been working on this for 28 years.” This was a reference to...
Officials ceremonially break ground on the West Thames Bridge. Among those digging in are LMDC president David Emil (left, in green jacket), Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (center without helmet), BPCA president Shari Hyman (center, with red helmet), State Senator Daniel Squadron (right, without helmet), and City Council member Margaret Chin (far right).

Whale Spends a Few Days in New York Harbor

The first sighting of a whale in New York Harbor was Friday morning off the Statue of Liberty. Over the last three days, sightings have indicated that the whale has been feeding and going as far as the George Washington Bridge and back again. The whale has been spotted off Lower Manhattan each day and...

WHALE SPOTTED IN THE HUDSON

Yesterday morning hundreds of birds were spotted off Exchange Place, Jersey City as the Goldman Sacks ferries York and Jersey plied the waters back and forth between North Cove and Jersey City. Later in the day we learned a whale was spotted in the same part of the River! Here’s the link to catch a...

November 18

326 – The old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated. 401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy. 1095 – The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.. 1307 – According to legend, William Tell shoots...
"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, includes the earliest known candid photograph of a person. The image shows a busy street, but because the exposure had to continue for several minutes the moving traffic is not visible. At the lower left, however, a man apparently having his boots polished, and the bootblack polishing them, were motionless enough for their images to be captured.

Strong Medicine

Ilka deLaat, a mother of two who lives in Battery Park City, is crowd-funding a new documentary project about the ways in which cannabis oil can improve — and in some cases, save — the lives of children with catastrophic medical problems. Her film, “Our Medicine,” profiles some unlikely advocates: a diverse group of parents...

November 17

  794 – Japanese Emperor Kanmu changes his residence from Nara to Kyoto. 1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. 1603 – English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. 1800 – Congress holds its first...
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