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Letters

To the editor, I was seriously pissed as I read an article about the Battery Park City Authority’s interest in removing the colonnade on South End Avenue. The street as it is, is pleasant and allows choices of sun or shade and so on. However my more serious question is why the BPCA continues to...

Does Battery Park City Deserve a Government Of the People, By the People, For the People?

A grassroots organization called Democracy for Battery Park City (“Democracy4BPC”) has gathered more than 2,200 signatures on a petition that calls upon Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint residents of the community to a majority of the seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). This number represents the equivalent of slightly more...
State Senator Daniel Squadron: "The community is given too weak a voice on the Authority that governs it. As the community's petitioning effort shows, there's broad support for a larger community role on the Board."

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. Current left… Current returned! Day 31, evening. Sunset is within half hour and the west sky is again a spectacle of black and white clouds,...
Dr. Stein Hoff photo by Stanley Fine

June 15

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians. 1502 – Christopher...
Rembrandt's Danaë (1636), from the collection of Pierre Crozat has resided in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia since the 18th century. Although the artist's wife Saskia was the original model for Danaë, Rembrandt later changed the figure's face to that of his mistress Geertje Dircx. On June 15th 1985, the painting was damaged by Bronius Maigys, who threw sulfuric acid on the painting and slashed it with a knife twice. The painting has since been restored.

Wildlife in New York City

Each year in late Spring, Chris Nadareski, a research scientist with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, ascends to the tops of three of the city’s bridges and attaches identifying bands on newly hatched falcon chicks. The Metropolitan Transit Authority Bridges and Tunnels project began in 1983 as part of a New York...