A Navy parachutist died after recently partaking in an aerial demonstration for Fleet Week this past Sunday. During the demonstration, his parachute failed to open properly and he plunged into the Hudson River in front of hundreds of people, who were observing from Liberty State Park. The man who died, whose identity was not immediately...
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New York City Beaches To Have Free Sunscreen This Summer
Despite the widely recognized stereotype that a large portion of New York residents spend the majority of their year confined to their tiny windowless offices and constricted apartments, most tend to emerge in the summer months to soak up the sun and enjoy the warm temperatures. As a result of such, a popular destination to...
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South Korea’s Newly Elected President Intends to Assuage Tensions With China
This Thursday, the new president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, quickly moved to better relations with China through his announcement of his plans to send a delegation to Beijing in order to settle a continuous disagreement regarding the deployment of an American missile-defense system to the nation. The issue of diminishing tensions prompted by the...
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NYC Ferry Already Causing Delays
It was meant to be a historic movement in transportation in the Big Apple. It was meant to help out the transportation system and make way for a new way to move around the boroughs. It was meant to be unique. All of those happened within the first days, but now it’s already causing delays....
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US Aircraft Carrier Risks Being Sunk by North Korea
This Sunday North Korea openly threatened to sink a US aircraft carrier that has begun to partake in drills with two Japanese destroyers in the western Pacific Ocean. The USS Carl Vinson—US aircraft carrier which was recently re-routed to go towards the Korean Peninsula—will be joined by the Japanese Ashigara and Samidare destroyers in waters...
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Lunchbox; A New Kind Of Ferry
Ferry’s run through the Hudson river, or through the waters near Liberty Island all day and everyday in NYC. Now a new kind of ferry is embarking all over the city as the “Lunchbox” ferries arrived at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Mayor Bill de Blasio was at the site to welcome the new...