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Downtown Alliance Offers Retail Therapy for Small Businesses
TriBatteryPops Records New Album
Maestro Goodkind reports: “The first in our area in a century, our all citizen volunteer band, now nearly 14 years old, has gone viral in the land of fine wines and fancy cheese (France). A Facebook post linking to the TriBattery Pop’s latest album has garnered an unprecedented 108,000 clicks and rising, of which nearly...
Community Leaders Argue for Separate Athletic and Performance Spaces in New SchoolsGym Not-So-Dandy
Community Board 1 (CB1) is seeking to organize opposition, both in Lower Manhattan and City-wide, to a Department of Education (DOE) policy that combines gyms and auditoriums into a single space, known as a “gymnatorium.” The DOE has adopted this policy in recent years as a way to save on both cost and space when...
June 17
1119 – Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreatfrom Wallachia. 1579 – Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it “New Albion” 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal...
River To River Festival Offers Free Dance, Music, Theater, and Open-Door Museums
The 15th annual River to River Festival, Lower Manhattan’s annual, free summer arts celebration, began yesterday and will continue through Sunday, June 26. The 11 days of live dance, music, theater and visual arts will present more than 80 separate performances and events, spread across dozens of Lower Manhattan venues, to a total audience of...
Rowing The Atlantic
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. Ordeal over – for this time. Day 33, Thursday 16th June. Still here! And optimistic again. Reasonable night, no big splashes. Bar 1010, rising, coolish...
June 16
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...
