In Depth | 109P/Swift-Tuttle - Solar System Exploration: NASA …
Discovery. Comet Swift-Tuttle was discovered in 1862 independently by both Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. Overview. Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the Sun once.
Alimentary Understanding - The Broadsheet
Trinity Church Serves Two Million Meals to the Needy in 2024. Trinity Church has served 2,029,516 free meals – and given away vast quantities of free groceries, clothing, and household supplies – to people struggling with poverty in and around Lower Manhattan in this calendar year.
Home Room for Homeless Kids - The Broadsheet
Dec 16, 2024 · One Out of Eight Students in Lower Manhattan Schools in Temporary Housing. At least 375 children enrolled in eight Lower Manhattan public elementary and middle schools experienced some degree of homelessness in 2024, according to statistics compiled by the City’s Department of Education (DOE).
Twisting in the Wind - The Broadsheet
Jan 7, 2025 · Eleventh-Hour Deal Scuttles Federal Funding for WTC Health Program. A last-minute change to the federal spending bill that kept the government from shutting down in late December dropped proposed funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (which serves people made sick by toxic debris from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001) that had previously been agreed upon by a bi-partisan ...
Cross Purposes - The Broadsheet
Jan 15, 2025 · Sacral Submergence Resurrects a Century-Old Downtown Tradition. As the temperature hovered just above freezing at midday on Sunday, January 12, and a breeze made the Lower Manhattan air feel even colder, it seemed like a safe bet that nobody on the esplanade was thinking, “what a great day for a swim.”
Rising Arches - The Broadsheet
The departing administration of President Joe Biden is delivering a gift to what is shaping up to Lower Manhattan’s next great public space. The federal Department of Transportation (DOT) is tapping into its Reconnecting Communities grant program to allocate $2 …
Statue of Larceny - The Broadsheet
Nov 20, 2024 · Single Mom Scammed by Ticket Hawkers Highlights Pattern of Persistent Crime Downtown. The recent case of a single mother with two small children, who was conned by swindlers selling bogus tickets to the Statue of Liberty at Battery Park, illustrates an ongoing case of lawlessness in Lower Manhattan.
Doomsday Prep - The Broadsheet
Oct 10, 2024 · Private School Falls More Than Eight Million Behind on Rent in FiDi. The future of an elite Lower Manhattan private school is under a cloud, after falling behind on millions of dollars in rent for more than a year, which has had the collateral effect of putting the building’s mortgage on a watchlist for loans that may wipe out investors who bought securities based on this debt.
Resonance of Things Past - The Broadsheet
Dec 21, 2024 · In Search of a Lost Christmastime. More than half a century ago, in the suburbs east of Manhattan, a former nun and a former soldier, united in a marriage of inconvenience, settled in a large old house that always struck their first-born child as haunted – not in any sinister way, but instead full of wonder and magical possibility: secret rooms aching to be discovered, stories yearning to be ...
Frozen Music - The Broadsheet
Oct 7, 2024 · Archtober Offers Insights On the Art We Live In. If Goethe was right that “music is liquid architecture and architecture is frozen music,” Lower Manhattan residents will have the opportunity to quaff deep draughts during Archtober, New York’s annual month-long celebration of urban design across the five boroughs.