1493 – Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace. 1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya. 1580 – The Ostrog...
The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London, England.
To the editor: Matthew Fenton’s article (BroadsheetDAILY July 11) on the Dickey house has meaning in today’s context: The area took only 50 years to go from a millionaire’s haven to slum. Although the process in retrospect seems almost inevitable given the then laissez-faire attitude to construction, it was also quickly moved forward by the...
A leading housing advocacy organization has completed an exhaustive look at threats to affordability in every community in the five boroughs, and has found that Lower Manhattan ranks among the ten most at-risk neighborhoods, as measured by two key metrics. The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), an umbrella organization of 100 non-profit affordable...
Hold on! Hold on to the Sun! In the weeks since the summer solstice the northeast has been transformed. A great leafy uprising has spread over the land, drawn to seemingly ever-present sunlight. The green swell has been lifting for months, first in measured increments, now burgeoning. Bare forests have transformed in waves of unfurling...
An unobtrusive Lower Manhattan structure might be the local embodiment of the phrase, “If these walls could talk…” The Robert and Anne Dickey House, located at 67 Greenwich Street (one block south of Rector Street), has been host to a stunning variety of uses since it was completed in 1810, as recently reported by the...
An architect's rendering of how the Dickey House will appear after it has been restored and incorporated into the new public school that will soon be built as the base of a large residential tower, slated to rise on the site of the former Sym's clothing store.
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants. 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. 1806 – The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. 1821 – The...
The Scopes Trial, a famous American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
