Monday, August 14, 2023 – AN INTERESTING SHOP BELOW GROUND
EXCLUSIVE ROOSEVELT ISLAND
TAPESTRY THROW
KEEPING WARM UNDER
A SPECIAL R.I. DESIGN
ORDER YOURS TODAY
$70- BEFORE 10/1
$80- AFTER 10/1
RESERVE YOURS TODAY AT FLEA MARKET
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
MONDAY, AUGUST 15 2023
ISSUE# 1060
NOTES FROM
ALL AROUND TODAY
JUDITH BERDY
SURPRISE!!
A FUN SHOP LOCATED ON THE MEZZANINE OF THE
ROOSEVELT AVENUE / 74 STREET JACKSON HEIGHTS STATION
Need to get some end of summer cool clothes at bargain prices? This shop has great Indian designed women’s clothes from $5 to $15. Just take the F train to Roosevelt Avenue and the shop is upstairs, a minute from the platform. (Sorry, you have to get there before August 28th due to our upcoming subway shutdown eastbound)
THIS IS THE NAVY YARD, NOT AIRPORT!!
When Concorde service ended in 2003, 75 air museums around the world put in bids for the 13 planes then in use. New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum got the British Airways Concorde that still holds the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft — 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds from Heathrow to JFK.
After welcoming museum visitors for nearly two decades, the needle-nosed jet will once again be out of commission until the spring of 2024, the Intrepid said in a news release.
The only supersonic commercial jet that ever flew, the Concorde cruised at twice the speed of sound. A one-way ticket cost $6,000 in 2003.
A crane lifted the Intrepid’s Concorde onto a barge Wednesday for a very subsonic passage to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where it will be stripped down, sanded and repainted.
“We are stewards of some of the most important artifacts of the 20th and 21st centuries, and with that comes the responsibility to preserve, protect and perpetuate these icons for generations to come,” said Susan Marenoff-Zausner, president of the Intrepid Museum.
The restoration “will ultimately allow us to present this awe-inspiring technological marvel and continue to tell the stories behind it for the foreseeable future,” she said.
MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
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