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Year: 2017

March 16, 2017

The Art of the Matter

The social commentator Cleveland Amory once posited a corollary to Gresham’s Law (the economics axiom that debased coinage drives sound money out of circulation, because folks horde the latter while continuing to offer the funny money for payment), but his version was about fashionable addresses. It went something like this: artists come first, setting up...
Natalya Nesterova's painting on view at Hall Bromm Gallery, one the oldest galleries in Tribeca
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March 15, 2017

Today in History March 15

44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. 493 – Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic...
Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York, George Gunther Hartwick, c. 1850
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March 15, 2017

Exploring Downtown’s Lost Neighborhood

Did you know that the Lower West Side used to be one of New York’s most diverse immigrant neighborhoods? In 1917, a news article noted the presence of 27 nationalities in this small compact area. From the 1840s to the 1960s, waves of Irish, German, Middle Eastern, and various Slavic immigrants settled north of the...
Lower Washington Street tenement
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March 15, 2017

Reshuffling the Deck

Community Board 1 (CB1), the body that serves as the official voice of Lower Manhattan in dealing with elected officials and government agencies, is undergoing a major reorganization. Anthony Notaro, who took over as chair last summer, announced at CB1’s February meeting that he planned to eliminate three of the Board’s four geographic committees, which...
Community Board 1 chair Anthony Notaro plans a major reorganization of the board's committee structure.
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March 14, 2017

Today in History March 14

1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1558 – Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman Emperor 1743 – First American town meeting in Boston’s Faneuil Hall 1757 – On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty “Pour encourager...
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March 14, 2017

Snow Day!

We are perhaps about to be reminded that, as E.E. Cummings wrote, “the snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” Whatever accumulation of powder Tuesday brings, everybody knows that New York just doesn’t have blizzards like we used to. Since the federal government began keeping records in 1869, the deepest accumulation of...
Park Row after the 1888 Blizzard. That's St. Paul's Chapel in the center
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