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Crew of Retired Fireboat Answers Sept. 11 Call In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the retired fireboat John J. Harvey was called back into service to fight blazes and aid survivors. Jessica DuLong, the boat's engineer and a freelance journalist, recounts this...
“Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society,” presents 81 drawings and watercolors from the mid-16th century to the present, with subjects including natural scenery, original settlements and citizenry as well as...
Discarding these 18th-century relics would be such a shame... EPA: Dig planned for NY site of old fort beams "Fort Edward, N.Y. — Archaeologists plan to excavate a Hudson River site where crews dredging PCB-contaminated sediment last week mistakenly ripped out the...
Move Over, High Line: Hudson River's Pier 57 Looks Amazing "Today, the Hudson River Park announced the winning proposal to develop Pier 57, at West 15th Street. The plan would turn the basically unused pier into a mixed-use development, filled with shops and...
First shipment of toxic sludge from Hudson River being unloaded in West Texas - BostonHerald.com FORT WORTH, Texas — Crews are still unloading the first 81-car train load of toxic sludge sucked out of New York’s Hudson River into specially dug storage pits at a West...
Poor Henry. After NOT discovering a passage to China on the Hudson River, he tries to cross the Arctic, gets locked in the ice for 7 months, until finally his crew mutinies and casts him, his son, and a handful of scurvy-plagued sailors adrift in a small boat in...
Asked what it's like to be the only woman on the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said: "It’s almost like being back in law school in 1956, when there were 9 of us in a class of over 500, so that meant most sections had just 2 women, and you felt that every...