Four Yeses, Six Maybes, and Thirty Nos
Most Common City Hall Answer to CB1’s Wish List Is ‘Get Lost’
Polynesian Canoe Hokule’a Visits New York During Global Voyage
Hokule’a is a 62-foot-long, double-hulled sailing canoe built and navigated in the style of the native Polynesian people: guided by the sun, moon, and stars; by currents, wind, and wave patterns; by bird and fish behavior. Hokule’a has crossed thousands of miles of ocean with modern navigation instruments turned off. No cellphones, no GPS, no...
Rowing Across the Atlantic
Dr. Stein Hoff began his attempt rowing FOXll 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. ——————————————————————————————— “Goodbye USA! Day 17, Tuesday 31st May, was a good day for mileage, managed 30 towards the waypoint, but same old clammy, unpleasant fog and miserable visibility...
June 2
1835 – PT Barnum and his circus begin first tour of US 1851 – First alcohol prohibition law enacted in Maine 1873 – Construction begins on San Francisco’s Clay St for world’s first cable railroad 1875 – Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission 1886 – Grover Cleveland is first to wed during his presidency. He was born Stephen Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New...
Call Center Acknowledges Falsely Using City Council Member's Name in Water Street Outreach
A consulting company hired to help build public support for a controversial zoning measure currently being considered by the City Council has admitted to placing calls to Lower Manhattan residents using technology that made the calls appear to come from the office of City Council member Margaret Chin. The proposal, known as the Water Street...
Call Center Acknowledges Falsely Using City Council Member’s Name in Water Street Outreach
A consulting company hired to help build public support for a controversial zoning measure currently being considered by the City Council has admitted to placing calls to Lower Manhattan residents using technology that made the calls appear to come from the office of City Council member Margaret Chin. The proposal, known as the Water Street...
June 1
193 – The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated. 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. 1535 – Combined forces loyal to Charles V attack and expel the Ottomans from Tunis during the Conquest of Tunis. 1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the...
