Volunteers on Friday, Saturday and Sunday braved rising COVID-19 numbers to plant more than 1,800 young trees and shrubs at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Marine Park in a project led by the Parks Department. Volunteers spent the mornings removing small trees and shrubs from 2-gallon plastic pots and planting them in pre-dug holes. […]
Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump as a ‘Jews For Trump’ convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump 2020 banners rolled slowly through Brooklyn and Manhattan on Sunday afternoon. The caravan traveled from Coney Island to the Trump Tower in Manhattan before heading to a rally […]
It was the biggest thing I ever saw. Today, kids would call it ginormous. To me it was a behemoth. I’m sure I would have thought, as its shadow reached me, that it was an escapee from Jurassic Park, had the movie been made yet. It was the Convair B-36 “Peacemaker” bomber (sort of a […]