chapter 381
4/12/2015
BIG APPLE
fund in the big city
my NYSIF to Trinity Church flyover video
After a short career with VStock Transfer Co on Long Island, Christie began work at the NYS Insurance Fund (Workmen's Compensation / Risk Assessment) at 199 Church Street in NY this week. It's an old street getting it's name from the oldest church in NY State, the 1696 Trinity Church nestled amongst the skyscrapers in lower lower Manhattan.
Created this picture and video from the free Google Earth Pro desktop program. Chris is actually within the TriBeCa neighborhood (Triangle Below Canal St). To the north are SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. Civic Center on the east. The World Trade Center stands out in 3D going toward the Hudson River and Jersey. Proceed South down the Hudson River and Battery Park is at the southern tip of Manhattan Island. That's where the Dutch and British had artillery installations to defend the Harbor in the old days. Financial District of Wall Street just above the Battery. Coming back up the East River Estuary, it rises and falls with the tide and flows both ways draining or filling Long Island Sound depending on the time of day. Like I said, I studied these Marine waters for years. Mirabile and I circumnavigated Manhattan Island and other marine waters in our 19 foot Boston Whaler years ago. The seaplane almost landed on us up river as we weren't aware of their seaplane base right in the river channel. Although I have a certificate from Manhattan College when I completed a week course there in the 70's, it's actually located in the Bronx after moving from it's origin near Canal Street a century ago. There is so much to cover and too much to cover.
Ride along on Christie's commute on the #7 Flushing subway route to work. Or her ride back home.
I grew up on Church Street and now Chris is also going to grow up on Church Street. Her building is nearly in the shadow of the building I used to visit for State business, at 26 Federal Plaza. That was the EPA Region 2 headquarters in the 70's when I worked on the calibrated/validated water quality mathematical model for the NY/ NJ Harbor Estuary Program.
Christie was home for Easter so we happened by Schmaltz just when the tour began.
Colored some eggs in Ballston Spa wit fam. What happened to all those eggs?
26 Federal Plaza in the foreground used to be EPA Region #2 Headquarters where had a few meetings. Met with principals of the wold leader in mathematical modeling for Sanitary Engineering. Hydroqual Environmental Consultants Dominic Ditoro, John St. John and Don O'Connor (the founder of the O'Connor reaeration coefficient the gold standard for all Sanitary Engineers) and professors at the Manhattan College "Mathematical Stream Modeling" course that was required to do our jobs. Their company has 8,000 people worldwide. I'm covering NY part time along with Buffalo, Love Canal, Rochester, Lake Ontario etc. I'm down there to see if NY can approve their rainfall runoff three dimensional time variable model with O'Connor puffing on his pipe in the background. (Tail wagging the dog scenario.) This is the simple version. Also attending were representatives of the NYC Dept Environmental Protection . On page 8 you can see my authorization (the NYSDEC) of the calibrated/validated NYC 208 model as part of the NY/ NJ Harbor Estuary Program.
Tribeca triangle below Canal St
Holland Tunnel Canal St tunnel
SoHo South of Houston St
Tried my new free Google Earth Pro video for and chamber of commerce
NYSIF nice 100 year anniversary video with B-17 and Curtiss P-36 Hawk. The mechanics seem to be adjusting the push rods on the rear bank of the 14 cylinder Pratt Whitney R 1830 Twin Wasp rotary engine. This must be at the Curtiss Wright Lackawanna plant where Dad worked on the successor P-40 Warhawk. He studied this engine in Lincoln Nebraska and Detroit and looked after them as the engines which also powered his B-24.
Hawk history. A couple P-36s took to the skies during the Pearl Harbor attack shooting down a few Japs. There is only one left flying in the world, at Duxford England.
The B-17 had the Lycoming Wright R-1820 Cyclone made in Canada by Studebaker. I'd taken a telephoto of the B-17 engine couple years ago zoomed in to show the Studebaker markings (but I deleted).
found this nice little street level Lower Manhattan video
link to my Virgil Home video on my Church Street .
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