Results tagged “sixdegrees”

The February edition of the MTA’s monthly television show, Transit Transit (Saturdays, 3:30 p.m., WNYE 25) , has a segment about Marvin Franklin, the NYC Transit Authority track inspector who was killed last year in an on the job accident in Brooklyn. The piece talks with some artists who knew Franklin and his co-workers and covers the opening of an exhibition of his work at the New York City Transit Museum in December.

A tipster sends over what they describe as "a really rad clip of downtown Manhattan totally flooded, under what looks like 25 feet of water." We think it's more scary than it is rad...scarier than a fictional monster attacking New York. The real fear of what could be our future is shown below in what's part of Six Degrees Could Change the World which "explores the potential impacts of global warming degree-by-degree—through six degrees over the next hundred years."

The misty drizzle of this morning has given way to a bit of sunshine early this afternoon. It may get a couple degrees warmer this afternoon, with the thermometer topping out around 75 if we're lucky. That's about six degrees warmer than normal.

There are a lot of obscure weather and climate statistics and records. Two of Gothamist's favorites are the record low high temperature and the record high low temperature. Yesterday we had one of the former. The combination of being in a cold air mass and under heavy cloud cover also tied 1911 (WCBS didn't give the exact date) as having the lowest high temperature of any day in August.

Dave Hill knows the importance of a good guitar solo. That's why his show, The Dave Hill Explosion, features a kick ass extended guitar solo. But that's not all his show has. The previous installment featured Sandra Bernhard, mini Michael Jackson, and a Chihuahua. But, no matter what's on the show, the focus is always on Hill, a master showman.

-- Tomorrow is One Web Day, and to celebrate, Cardozo is sponsoring a panel with Craig Newmark and Scott Heiferman at Castle Clinton in Battery Park. It starts at 12pm, and just like (most of) Craigslist, it's free!

Wednesday: ten degrees above average. Thursday: six degrees below average.

Duncan Watts, Columbia Professor

Early showers, clearing up pretty quickly for a sunny day. High of 74.