Interesting Links
McBurney High School was a small private high school on West 63rd Street in Manhattan. It used facilities that were part of the West Side YMCA. We used the YMCA facilities such as the pools and gym.
This New York Times article from November, 1979, discusses the plans to build the first seaport development. Titled South St. Plan leaves dissention in it's wake the article describes many of the existing businesses and occupants of the area. This project resulted in the market building between front at south streets, and the original Pier 17.
When I took a class on the Global Positioning System, I chose a project around the tide and currents in New York Harbor. GPS Project I set out to prove that the current changes at Pier 16 in the east river at the same time as it changes at Verranzano Narrows.
From 1981 until 1997 I was the manager of the Starfire Computer Aided Dispatch System . This is the system that the New York Fire Department used to dispatch and track their fire units. In the 1980's when the system was contracted for, there were no commercial operating systems that could handle FDNY unless it used a mainframe computer.
In the 18th century, when there were few railroads and no highways, canals were the primary way to move goods for commerce. There were two canals across New Jersey from the Delaware River to New York Harbor. The Delaware and Raritan Canal was one of the two canals that crossed New Jersey. The D&R canal extended from Trenton to Raritan Bay.
I had always dreamed of flying. But I learned sailing before I learned flying. I felt that learning soaring was a good preliminary step to powered flight. I joined the Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association in Fredrick, Maryland. I learned that soaring was more like sailing than I could ever imagine and that the atmosphere was more exciting and more alive than I could imagine.
My first motorcycle was a 2-stroke rocket, a Yamaha RD350B It had front disc brakes and six gears. I bought it at Village Cycles on W 3rd St in Greenwich Village. Julio let me in the shop area and I learned how to do my own maintenance.
Most of the islands in the caribbean are volcanic in nature. They form an arc at the edge of the caribbean tectonic plate. Barbados exists to the east of the main arc and is not built by a volcano. Barbados lies at the top of a pile of seafloor called the Barbados Accretion Prism The south america plate is plunging below the caribbean plate to the east of Barbados and the seafloor is being scraped off as the plates merge and piles up in front of the caribbean plate. This video gives an explanation of this process.