For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July.
The daily average last month was at or below normal every day but two. The temperature broke 80 on 16 days in New York — one more day than in Fairbanks, Alaska. Depending on Friday’s high, this was the second or third coolest June and July recorded in New York. If August follows the same pattern — and the latest forecast through midmonth predicts that it will — this could be the coolest summer on record.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
On the Waterfront
WNYC, July 21: "Mayor Bloomberg has unveiled a "vision" for the south Brooklyn waterfront, that calls for keeping the 2.5 mile coastline largely industrial, rather than converting it to residential use. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman has more."
WNYC, May 6: The last time I [Lisa Chow] reported on Smith Street, home to many boutiques and restaurants and squeezed between Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, it was January. It was cold. And store managers complained that there was very little foot traffic. This time, I spent some time with one of the street’s anchor retailers, $14 million clothing chain Brooklyn Industries, to investigate one company’s adaptations to the recession.
[Co-founder and CEO Lexy Funk]: It's a ghost behind your shoulder every day. What's the bank going to think?
[Lisa Chow]: Funk says, when retailer Steve and Barry’s went out of business last year, her banker immediately called and asked, why did they fail and how are you different?
[Lexy Funk]: That's an enormous pressure, this uncertainty of how you're performing relative to other companies and how you're performing as compared to the bank's expectations.
[Lisa Chow]: Funk says the big risk is that the bank decides Brooklyn Industries is not meeting expectations and pulls the company's credit line. So far, the bank continues to lend to Brooklyn Industries. And Brooklyn Industries is trying to adapt, as it watches some of its neighbors on Smith Street go out of business.
WNYC, May 6: The last time I [Lisa Chow] reported on Smith Street, home to many boutiques and restaurants and squeezed between Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, it was January. It was cold. And store managers complained that there was very little foot traffic. This time, I spent some time with one of the street’s anchor retailers, $14 million clothing chain Brooklyn Industries, to investigate one company’s adaptations to the recession.
[Co-founder and CEO Lexy Funk]: It's a ghost behind your shoulder every day. What's the bank going to think?
[Lisa Chow]: Funk says, when retailer Steve and Barry’s went out of business last year, her banker immediately called and asked, why did they fail and how are you different?
[Lexy Funk]: That's an enormous pressure, this uncertainty of how you're performing relative to other companies and how you're performing as compared to the bank's expectations.
[Lisa Chow]: Funk says the big risk is that the bank decides Brooklyn Industries is not meeting expectations and pulls the company's credit line. So far, the bank continues to lend to Brooklyn Industries. And Brooklyn Industries is trying to adapt, as it watches some of its neighbors on Smith Street go out of business.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Pacific Pops
Monday, July 13, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
So How Wet Did June Get?
The New York Times -- Tuesday, June 30, 2009:
"Central Park was pelted with 10.06 inches of rain for the month through Tuesday afternoon, according to preliminary figures from the National Weather Service, more than twice the average for the month, and close to the record 10.27 inches set in 2003."
Sunday:
"Central Park was pelted with 10.06 inches of rain for the month through Tuesday afternoon, according to preliminary figures from the National Weather Service, more than twice the average for the month, and close to the record 10.27 inches set in 2003."
Sunday:
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