Last Friday, at Pier 46 along the Hudson River Park, some friends and I saw the Academy-award documentary film by Luc Jacquet, March of the Penguins. This cute family flick depicts the yearly journeys of the Emperor Penguins of Antartica. The little baby penguins are the cutest of all!

Saturday's trip to Governors Island was a journey into the unknown. For over 200 years, very few civilians have ventured onto this federal government land. But since 2003, good men, women, and children can visit this historic island for free! For those of us that went, we enjoyed a self-guided tour as well as an all day Singer & Songwriter Music Festival. We think it would be cool to have a big "Capture the Flag" game on Governors Island in the not-too-distant future. Anyone interested?

Speaking of "big" --- later that night I enjoyed a very large portion of chicken fried steak at Lobo, a Tex-Mex restaurant located at 218 Court Street in Brooklyn.

And today, just outside Prospect Park, at the Grand Army Plaza, Develop, Don't Destroy, Brooklyn held a rally against the Atlantic Yards project. For those of you unfamiliar with my views on public transportation, I am a strong advocate of trains, metros, subways, buses, trams, trolleys, and any other means of mass-transit. Any urban project that will bring car traffic, pollution, and expensive housing to my beloved city concerns me.

How did I get this way? Back in 1964, a similar project - now known as Madison Square Garden - destroyed one of New York's boldest and grandest train stations - the original Pennsylvania Station. I cried when I learned about this beautiful building's demise on the PBS documentary, New York: A Documentary Film. It would be a grave misfortunte to make a similar mistake again.

[Thomas J. Lueck has an article about the protest in the New York Times. NoLandGrab posted a bunch of photos from yesterday's rally on Flickr.]