Manhattan

Marist@Loyola 6:30 p.m. [ESPNU] The Greyhounds men get a chance to show off for a national television audience when they host a Red Foxes team that has dropped 15 of 16 games this season. The game is the second of an ESPNU Loyola doubleheader, with the women's team home against Manhattan at 4:30 p.m.

I live in Baltimore and on a recent visit to the Big Apple, my grandson, Kynan, 12, convinced me to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. We started our journey in Manhattan (City Hall subway stop) and it took us about 30 minutes to complete it. This picture is taken from the bridge looking toward the East River and with the East side of Manhattan in the background. On the Brooklyn side, we walked along the promenade. That area is steeped in Revolutionary War history. It's where troops from the fabled "Maryland Line" won high praise from General George Washington for their courage in resisting the British forces.

NEW YORK - - You can picnic in a park, walk in a park or sleep in a park. You can also read in a park, but it is the rare park that provides the reading material for you. One that does is Bryant Park, a little gem of green space in the heart of Manhattan where the skyscrapers provide shade. Those who restored the park to its innocence in the 1990s after a long, dark period of disrepair and disrepute also restored its Depression-era role as a reading park. Bryant Park is located between 40th and 42nd streets and Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas, in the shadow of the New York Public Library.

A lot of women I know take day trips to New York City to see a Broadway show, go shopping, or dine at a fine restaurant on a special occasion. But I prefer to take my expensive 24-hour city jaunts to move my daughter in and out of various dormitories in the neighborhoods around Washington Square. Actually, I'm writing this on the Amtrak now, returning home to Baltimore after moving her back into the city for a mandatory summer session just 10 days after we picked her up from her freshman year.

Just when it looked as if the Loyola Greyhounds were primed to turn the corner, they again last night hit the proverbial brick wall. Loyola shot 35 percent from the field and 58 percent from the foul line, rallying late only to come up short in a 72-65 loss to Manhattan before an announced 1,512 at Reitz Arena. It was the team's second straight loss after a season-high six-game winning streak. "That's two times in a row I just didn't think emotionally or mentally we were ready to play," Greyhounds coach Jimmy Patsos said.

Loyola 58, Manhattan 54 - Jamal Barney (Southwestern) had 21 points and eight rebounds, leading Loyola to a 58-54 victory over Manhattan last night in Riverdale, N.Y. The Greyhounds (7-12, 2-5 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) won their second straight by shooting 12-for-23 in the second half and holding Manhattan to 1-for-12 from three-point range for the game. Brett Harvey had 13 points in the second half for Loyola, which trailed 24-22 at halftime. After failing to score in the first half, Harvey went 3-for-6 from beyond the arc to spark the Greyhounds.

On a recent chilly morning, Liev Schreiber was eating breakfast in a downtown Manhattan restaurant while a swarm of shutterbugs hovered outside on the corner near his apartment. However, Schreiber wasn't exactly the one whom the photographers were after. "It's her," he said, with a weary grin. He's referring to his partner, Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts, with whom he has one son, and at this point, another on the way (Watts gave birth to their second son two weeks after this interview)

There's a funny joke at the heart of Food for Fish, the show opening Single Carrot Theatre's second season, and also a wistful truth. The black comedy by Adam Symkowicz, which ran off-Broadway, is a modern riff on Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. In the Russian masterpiece, the title characters are trapped in a dull provincial town and long for the excitement of the big city, Moscow. In Symkowicz's update, the three women reside in the ultimate urban playground - Manhattan - and yearn for the security and quiet of their childhood home in suburban New Jersey.

PAUL J. CURRAN, 75 New York lawyer fought corruption Paul J. Curran, a New York trial lawyer who pursued mobsters, corrupt public officials, crooked businessmen and other malefactors as the state investigation commissioner and as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan in the 1960s and '70s, died Thursday night in Manhattan. Mr. Curran, who lived in Manhattan and Spring Lake, N.J., died of complications from cancer, said his son Thomas Curran of Bronxville, N.Y. Mr. Curran served several years in the state Assembly early in his career and sought the Republican nomination for governor in the fall of 1982, when Mario Cuomo, a Democrat, won the first of his three terms.

Dorothy S. Childs, a former office manager and longtime Towson homemaker, died of pneumonia Sunday at St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 88. Dorothy Sands was born in Baltimore and raised in Cedarcroft. She was a 1936 graduate of Western High School and attended the University of Maryland in College Park. During the late 1930s, she worked in the payroll department of the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River and then took a job in 1940 working with a team of scientists on the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb.