Photo by Jefferson Siegel Not a corporation exactly known for its safety record after its disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP’s gas station sign at Second Ave. and Second St. — not surprisingly — failed during Superstorm Sandy.

It was Thanksgiving weekend, but for Kathleen Corrigan springtime is around the corner. She was planting daffodil bulbs in her window boxes on E. 12th St. Why daffodils? They’re early bloomers, she said, adding they’re expected to blossom in April.

During Superstorm Sandy a sign on the grounds of the Jacob Riis public housing complex at E. Sixth St. and the F.D.R. Drive bent but didn’t break in the powerful winds coming off the East River.

Last Saturday, the steamship Lilac had an open house at Pier 25 in Tribeca. There was an exhibition by The River Project — the marine science field station based at Pier 40, at West Houston St. — onboard showcasing the Hudson’s ecosystem. Traps were pulled up from moorings on the Lilac’s side to see what [...]

Trumpeter Rasheed Richard Howard celebrated seven years of performing every weekend in Washington Square Park last Saturday, alongside his quartet, the Jazz Collective. Throughout that time Howard has wowed audiences of locals and tourists with his two-handed technique, in which he improvises on a flugelhorn and trumpet simultaneously. Asked if he knew George Braith — [...]

On the afternoon of Mon., Sept. 17, the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, several hundred protesters marched out of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. After two blocks, as they walked down Cortlandt St. approaching Church St. and the World Trade Center site, police stopped the march, making four arrests, including those above. The protesters [...]

Longtime East Village activist John Penley was arrested at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte earlier this month as he was helping lead a veterans protest. Hundreds of police wearing camelbacks for hydration and peddling heavily equipped bicycles shadowed the protest march, making walls of spoked wheels to pen the activists along the route as [...]

A peregrine falcon made a landing, and quite a stir, in Tribeca last month when it was spotted in a tree pit at Duane and Hudson Sts. opposite King’s Pharmacy. People were busy snapping photos of it with their cell phones and calling the Center for Animal Care and Control. Some mistakenly thought the 10-inch-long [...]