Year: 2017

Where to Get Wet

The tenth annual City of Water Day will drench participants in fun tomorrow (Saturday, July 15) at more than 60 venues throughout the five boroughs, New Jersey and Westchester. But Lower Manhattan residents will want to cruise over to Governors Island, which will be the center of the region’s most popular family-friendly harbor festival. While...

July 13

587 BC – Babylon’s siege of Jerusalem ends following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. 1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England. 1787 – The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest...
The 1977 Blackout

Trying to Wrest an Upside from Tragedy

The husband of cyclist Olga Cook, who was killed by a drunk driver last June at the intersection of West and Chambers Streets, is suing the City of New York, the State of New York, the Hudson River Park Trust, and the Battery Park City Authority over her death. “There were 17 prior crashes at...

Coming Soon to FiDi: Dinner and a Movie

A national theater chain that aims to make movies fun again (with equal parts etiquette and alcohol) is coming to the Financial District. The Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse has signed a lease for a 40,000-square foot space at 28 Liberty Street, formerly known as One Chase Manhattan Plaza. The chain is widely hailed for providing fine...
A 40,000-square foot, ten-screen multiplex cinema is coming to the underground levels of 28 Liberty Street, where developer Fosun International is creating more than 300,000 square feet of subterranean retail

Jade for Eternity at the China Institute

The China Institute, located at 100 Washington Street, has a new gallery exhibition open for the summer: Dream of the Kings: A Jade Suit for Eternity. This solo exhibition from Xuzhou Museum, debuting in the U.S. for the first time, displays more than 100 newly-excavated artifacts of jade, terracotta soldiers, and bronzes from the Western...
An earthenware dancing figurine from the China Institute's new exhibit.
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.