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☆ The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
  + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Matthew Haag | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior wall. Instead, he made the once-grand hotel his full-time residence for the next five years, without ever paying another cent. In a city where every inch of real estate is picked over and priced out, and where affordable apartments are among the rarest of commodities, Mr. Barreto had perhaps the best housing deal in New York City history. Now, that deal could land him in prison.
Persons: Mickey Barreto, Barreto, Christopher Columbus’s Organizations: New Locations: Midtown Manhattan, New York City, California
☆ A Columbus Letter Beloved by Thieves and Forgers Hits the Market
  + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Julia Jacobs | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The last time Christie’s sold a copy of a famed 15th-century pamphlet announcing Christopher Columbus’s first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was in 1992, and it did not end well. It later emerged that the document had been stolen, and it was eventually repatriated to Italy. The pamphlet Christie’s is auctioning off on Thursday comes from an anonymous private collection in Switzerland. This one, it says, has been investigated relentlessly to ensure it was neither stolen nor forged. He said that Christie’s had “covered all the bases” to authenticate this copy of the oft-stolen pamphlet.
Persons: Christie’s, Christopher Columbus’s, ”, Jay Dillon Locations: Italy, Spain, Switzerland, New Jersey
☆ Theme Park’s Selective History Appeals to a New Spanish Nationalism
  + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Constant Méheut | More About Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Moving through the darkened holds of a replica of Christopher Columbus’s ship, visitors on a recent afternoon marveled at the tangle of compasses, cordage and barrels. At last, a voice shouted “Land!” and the white sands of America appeared. May it be for the greater glory of God,” Columbus was then heard telling Queen Isabella I of Castile. The popularity of the park has come as a surprise in a country that has long been shy about celebrating its history. Nationalist sentiments were largely taboo after the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, who died in the 1970s.
Persons: Christopher Columbus’s, “, ” Columbus, Queen Isabella I of Castile, Fou, Gen, Francisco Franco Locations: America, Spain
☆ Hurricanes of Data: The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Porter Fox | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +35 min
The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea Shortly after dawn on Sept. 30, 2021, Richard Jenkins watched a Category 4 hurricane overrun his life’s work. That August, a sister ship, SD 1031, successfully entered Tropical Storm Henri, but only in its early stages. Hurricane research, modeling and forecasting requires many terabytes of data for every square mile the storm passes through, including vitally important sea-level data from inside a storm. The next day, the depression was upgraded to a tropical storm and officially given the name Sam. And four months later, Tropical Storm Megi killed more than 150, wiped out several villages with landslides and displaced more than a million people.
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