Rites of Assembly
Glick Plans Aggressive Legislative Push for Her Final Session in Albany
EYES TO THE SKY
On the summer solstice, June 20th, I was out in a canoe on a small pond shortly after sunset, botanizing and birding. The sun sets slowly during the weeks on either side of the solstice; daylight lingers in the sky. It was awhile before dusk, when I began to scan the sky for the brightest...
RiverWatch
Thursday, June 30 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 6:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 4:00 pm; Eastern Caribbean Carnival Sunshine Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; St. John, N.B., Canada Friday, July 1 Norwegian Breakaway Outbound 4:30 pm; Eastern Caribbean Queen Mary 2 Inbound 5:30 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm; Halifax, N.S./Boston, MA Saturday, July 2 Norwegian...
June 28
1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull. 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. 1519 – Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1776 – Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged...
Rowing The Atlantic
A good day with 11 hours rowing, pleased with the progress, but fairly exhausting and as I write can hardly keep awake! Fog this morning, fog again tonight, but in between was a lot of sunshine and blue skies. And quite hard work… Bright sun meant good charging, topped up all devices, made 15 l...
The Job Market
Downtown ranks dead last among all communities in the five boroughs for the percentage of unemployed residents, according to the City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the tally of locals who can’t find work may get even smaller tomorrow (Wednesday, June 29), when a job fair at the Conrad New York Hotel (102...
June 27
1542 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria,King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. In was the last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. 1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black...
