Month: April 2018

Battery Park City Wayfinding Signage Survey

The Battery Park City Authorityis in the process of developing new wayfinding signage, intended to guide motorists, bicyclists, transit users, and pedestrians along and through streets (in concert and coordination with existing New York City street signage), sidewalks, public spaces, and transition points across Battery Park City’s 92-acres.    This process will result in the...

9/11 Advocacy That Makes All the Difference

Turley, Hansen & Rosasco, LLP is a law firm that focuses exclusively on representing Downtown residents and workers impacted by exposure to toxins in the air after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As they seek financial compensation and medical care for their clients, the firm is emerging as one of the leading advocates...

April 23

1597 – William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance. 1635 – Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded 1838 – English steamship “Great Western” crossing Atlantic docks in NYC 1861 – Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces 1900 – First...
William Shakespeare "Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's-tongue, bull's-pizzle, you stock-fish!" (Henry IV Part I - Act II, Scene iv)

Where Landmarks Are Plentiful, But Development Enroaches

One of the more obvious ways in which Lower Manhattan is being radically transformed before the eyes of people who live here is the proliferation of new buildings. A less apparent, but still significant, driver of the ongoing local metamorphosis is the rate at which older buildings — in some cases, historic — are being...
A map compiled by the Municipal Art Society shows more than 100 sites in Lower Manhattan where owners or developers have sought permissions to alter legally protected landmarks.

Today in History April 20

1453 – Three Genoese galleys and a Byzantine blockade runner fight their way through an Ottoman blockading fleet a few weeks before the fall of Constantinople. 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the...
Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person, man or woman, to win the award twice. Curie's efforts, with her husband Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, the further development of X-rays. The famed scientist died on July 4, 1934. Curie's daughter Irene followed in her mother's footsteps, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.