Morning Bulletin: Man Survives Tumble Onto Tracks, Imagining A Central Park Golf Course

Photo by Barbara Peck on 110th and Broadway, taken Saturday night. It’s not clear what made the traffic light fall, but it continued to show red, yellow and green signals.

October 9, 2017 Weather: Rainy with a high of 74 degrees.

Notices:
‘The Politics of Opera’ and more local events are on our calendar.

There’s a special needs school fair at the JCC on October 24. More here.

PS 165, located on 109th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam tells us it is still accepting and enrolling students in all of its kindergarten programs.

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News:
A man fell onto the tracks at 96th Street on Friday and appeared to get hit by a C train. “The man, 56, fell onto the northbound tracks of the B/C train at about 2:44 p.m. just as the train was approaching the station, witnesses said. He landed in the track well, and the train ran over him, but he was not struck. Witnesses in the station said they thought the man was dead until he started yelling for help.”

Two finance bros say they want to turn Central Park into two golf courses, just as Olmstead and Vaux secretly always wanted. “At 843 acres, Central Park is more than enough land for two golf courses. But as an oasis for New York residents to jog, bike, row, picnic and more, the idea of fitting golf alongside these pastimes has never garnered widespread public support. This is the story of two Manhattan-based financiers looking to change that.” Watch the video posted below and keep your eyes peeled for a brief Mike Bloomberg cameo.

After an architectural competition, the three peacocks that live on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine now have a new home, or “hutch”. “‘We were given basic parameters,’ said Ryan Lewandowski, one of the winners. ‘My design focused on referencing the cathedral architecture. The other design focused on functional aspects — how you clean it out.’ The tubular frame ‘allows adaptability for where you place perches,’ he said.”

A local kid grew up, went to work for MIT, and won the Nobel Prize. “Rainer Weiss ’55, PhD ’62, professor emeritus of physics at MIT, has won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2017…The young family fled to Prague and then emigrated to New York City, where Weiss grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, cultivating a love for classical music and electronics, and making a hobby of repairing radios.” Stay in school kids!

Nicely done, @GolfDigest! A bold vision to bring golf to Central Park: https://t.co/C9Lqt9bCty

— westsiderag (@westsiderag) October 9, 2017