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...clock in the morning on the 29th of June, sentinels posted on the roof of the Kennedy House at No. 1 Broad Way suddenly noted warning signals fluttering on Staten Island. Major General Sir William Howe's invasion fleet, two weeks out of Halifax, had at last arrived in force at the entrance to New York's outer harbor...
...soon clear, however, that after months of waiting, anxious New York citizens and soldiery faced more waiting still. As the British fleet came on, the lead ships, instead of continuing north for a quick assault on Manhattan, turned toward Staten Island. Clouds of canvas blossomed in the lower harbor -more frigates and transports (130 vessels carrying 9,300 troops) than anyone in the Colonies had ever before seen assembled. When at last the fleet was anchored and its sails were struck, the bare masts reminded one Continental soldier of a "wood of pine trees trimmed." Noted Private Daniel McCurtin...
Exam at Sea. Yet the dramatic break with tradition did not solve the immediate problem of reopening the university to its 270,000 students. One dedicated physics professor administered his final examination on board the Staten Island ferry at night last week. The vast majority of students were in limbo while officials work out an agreement for emergency funding...
...this mini-Manhattan, Wall Street is a few paces long, the aluminum-sheathed prisms of the World Trade Center are 30 feet high, and though you can get on the Staten Island Ferry and feel it shiver under your feet, it can only carry half a dozen riders at a time. The Woolworth Building leans crazily, canted forward like a gothic shed in the wind. Its terra cotta façade has become a wedding cake of writhing mullions and bulging cornices; the windows glow green, and inside in plain view there are people yelling at file clerks, chasing secretaries...
...however, has the direct simplicity of a good toy. When one steps aboard the Ruckus Staten Island Ferry, it shimmies alarmingly; plumes of smoke, made of sheet metal, issue from its funnels and begin to waggle; a flock of seagulls suspended from the smoke begin to circle and dip. One succumbs at once to these lighthearted parodies of reality. But they are also extremely well researched. The Ruckus group spent months drawing in the streets of lower Manhattan, getting to know the buildings...