New City DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman
By Michael V. Cusenza
Mayor Bill de Blasio recently appointed Henry Gutman as New York City’s next commissioner of the Department of Transportation.
Gutman, who serves as chairman of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and serves on the Board of Brooklyn Bridge Park, was a member of de Blasio’s BQE Expert Panel in 2019 and 2020.
“Hank Gutman is a visionary leader whose decades of civic life in this city have made New York City fairer, better, and more accessible,” de Blasio said. “We made permanent and progressive changes to city streets last year, and we have more to do this year. I can’t wait to work with him to expand transportation options to every New Yorker and build a recovery for all of us.”
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It’s August, 1818, and two British naval ships are dodging icebergs in Baffin Bay on their mission to find the Northwest Passage. John Ross, commanding the HMS
Isabella, and William Parry in the HMS
Alexander are farther north along the western Greenland coast than any previous explorers. They assume this land of glaciers and stark mountains is uninhabited.
But they’re wrong.
They spy several figures running on a hill near shore. Ross assumes they’re shipwrecked sailors in need of rescue, and he steers the
Isabella to get closer. But they turn out to be Native people, a community of Inughuit living farther north than Europeans believed was physically possible.
Governors Wind Energy Coalition
Solar is enough to power millions of Con Ed customers watching Sunday’s Super Bowl Source: By Bill Sanderson, New York Daily News • Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2021
Solar electricity has grown enough in the New York area to power the TVs Con Ed customers will use to watch the big game this Super Bowl Sunday.
Con Ed customers have installed enough solar panels to put the Chiefs and the Buccaneers on 4 million 42-inch LED TV screens, the company said Wednesday.
The region’s solar boom was slowed in 2020 by the pandemic, Con Ed says but the company’s customers in New York City and Westchester County still built 5,542 new solar arrays capable of producing 44.77 megawatts of power.
By The World Health Organization
In a busy intensive care unit in Eka Kotebe General Hospital, Addis Ababa, Dr Samuel Getnet, 28, a newly-recruited young and energetic physician anxiously monitors the mechanical ventilators, an indispensable form of life support for COVID-19 patients with respiratory distress.
“I never thought my professional journey would bring me to the place where I’m today at the center of COVID-19 pandemic management team treating and caring for the most severely ill patients who critically need my support and care. Despite the challenges and risks, I am grateful for the opportunity to serve my people at this critical time,” he said.