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East River beach at Randall's Island. Aug. 2, 2014. (Photo: Terese Loeb Kreuzer)

The Downtown Little League softball Juniors (girls, ages 12 to 14) had a magnificent season, but on Monday, it finally came to an end.

"Divers rescue 3 after unconscious man falls overboard," New York Post, 8/4/14. "A worker on the high-octane tourist boat 'The Shark' fell overboard at the South Street Seaport on Monday, prompting two good Samaritans to jump in after him," the New York Post reports. "About 20 people were aboard when a high-tension rope suddenly snapped and knocked the worker in the chest as the craft was pulling out at around 3:30 p.m., officials said. "Elan Bacharach, 18, who witnessed the unconscious man and thought about his own grandfather, who drowned in a pool four years ago... jumped off the dock and held the man above water until police arrived." For the complete article, click here.

"Cashing In on New Jersey Club Life," Wall Street Journal, 7/27/14. Battery Park City resident

The Wellmont Theater in Montclair, N.J. (Photo: The Rosen Group)

and Community Board 1 member, Tom Goodkind, is CFO of the Rosen Group, subject of an article in the Wall Street Journal. "In 2007, a real estate company that focused primarily on office buildings in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood made a move into the entertainment business by buying a historic New Jersey movie house with plans to convert it into a concert hall," says the Wall Street Journal. "Now, the Rosen Group is bringing that strategy to a close by selling the 93-year-old Wellmont Theater, where Charlie Chaplin once performed. Rosen has hired NGKF Capital Markets to market the Montclair property with an asking price of $6.7 million." The article notes that B.B. King, Wilco, Elvis Costello and at least two groups made up of former members of seminal psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead have performed at the theater and then quotes Goodkind. "'It's in tune with the demographic of the town a bit. It's a suburban town. We're trying to bring those acts that people saw at the Fillmore in the '70s or at Roseland in the '80s or '90s, and bring them to a place that's more convenient to the Jersey guys and gals who live there,'" said Tom Goodkind, Rosen's chief financial officer and a former denizen of the downtown Manhattan rock scene." For the complete article, click here.

"New York's $4B shrine to government waste and idiocy," New York Post, 8/2/14. Steve Cuozzo, a critic for the New York Post, doesn't like Santiago Calatrava's transportation hub, now under construction at the World Trade Center site. "Here comes The Calatrasaurus," he writes in an opinion article in the Post. He describes it as the Port Authority's "cyclopean PATH terminal onto which scary 'wings' have been grafted like plastic mutant terrors of 1950s sci-fi movies. Or do the wings, not plastic but steel, suggest teeth whittled down by a sadistic dentist? Or a giant fishbone? The Hub exhausts your capacity for cheap jokes. With each passing week, the embarrassing ugliness of this $4 billion boondoggle designed by Santiago Calatrava - a hideous waste of public money - grows plain for all to see." The hub is scheduled to open at the end of 2015, by which time, Cuozzo predicts, it will look even worse. "The wings will be twice as many as they are now. A planned white paint job of the now battleship-gray ribs beneath the wings will only sharpen the skeletal appearance," he says. He admits that he liked Calatrava's original design, which suggested a bird in flight, but, he continues, "the 'bird in flight' has bird-and-switched into a sharp-edged stegosaurus shorn of beauty by 'value engineering' - the cost-saving strategy which alters or replaces just enough of an architect's original vision to make it look cheap." For the complete article, click here.