The 9/11 Tribute Center Museum, which plans to move from its current headquarters, adjacent to the World Trade Center, to a larger space in the Greenwich South section of the Financial District, is facing a potential hurdle. On November 4, the condominium board of the residential building at 88 Greenwich Street (which houses the new...
This rendering of the new headquarters of the 9/11 Tribute Center, which is slated to open next spring, shows the entrance planned for the corner of Greenwich and Rector Streets. Residents of the condominium tower in which the facility will be housed have filed suit to compel the Museum to move that entrance to the middle of the block, to avoid creating congestion near the front door used by people who live in the building.
655 – Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. 1492 – Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco 1532 – Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn 1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam 1813 – Tax revolt in Amsterdam...
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“Many Lower Manhattan are very discouraged right now, because of the results of last week’s presidential election,” State Senator Daniel Squadron reflects. “But it’s vital that people who are concerned or upset about the outcome not to give up, but instead to double down on involvement and engagement.” A venue for doing that will be...
(Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by looking at data and statistics available from the City’s Data2Go.NYC website. This installment focuses on crime.) Here’s a new flash that will shock no one: Violent crime is vanishingly rare in Lower Manhattan. Within Community...
Almost every Category of crime is a rarity in Lower Manhattan, save for one.
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile. James Bruce was a Scottish traveler and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile. Herman Melville 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville...
Astronaut Pete Conrad studies the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. The Lunar Module 'Intrepid', can be seen in the top right of the picture.
