1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1798 – As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the “Quasi-War”. 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionistsbegin. 1846 – American troops occupy...
New estimates by the Department of City Planning show that the risk to Lower Manhattan posed by sea-level rise and extreme weather events will increase in years to come, as the focus of climate change converge with aggressive real estate development. Projections shared at the June 27 monthly meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1) predict...
This map from the Department of City Planning shows the current (as of 2015) estimated flood risk for extreme weather events in Lower Manhattan. The dark blue area is what the Federal Emergency Management Agency defines as the V Zone, or most vulnerable, while the lighter blue section is the A Zone (or area experiencing the second-greatest hazard), and the light green region is the X Zone, believed to be at risk for less-severe flooding. The red dotted line shows the perimeter where waves are expected to penetrate.
1610 – John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland. 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition. 1915 – The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This is the...
On July 5, 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland.
Democracy for Battery Park City (D4BPC), the grassroots organization that has collected more than 2,500 petition signatures and has lobbied for years to have neighborhood residents appointed to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board, will hold a rally tomorrow (Thursday, July 6) to build public support for a new law —...
Members of Democracy for Battery Park City meet in the Winter Garden last spring to confer about strategy for building public support in their campaign to make the Authority more representative of the community it governs.
Lower Manhattan has a new public art piece: “What a Wonderful World,” by Romanian-born (but New York-based) sculptor Leonard Ursachi was unveiled yesterday in Tribeca Park, the triangular greensward that bisects West Broadway near Walker Street and Sixth Avenue. Resembling a cross between a giant hornet’s nest and a gargantuan egg fashioned from wicker, the...
"What a Wonderful World," the new public art piece on display in Tribeca Park now through December.
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway. 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground. 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy. 1786 – Alexander...
Construction of the Interstate Highway System, which started in 1956.
