Month: April 2018

Jail House Shock

If Lower Manhattan seems jammed with tens of thousands of people who live here, hundreds of thousands who work here, and more than an million who visit here as tourists each year, get ready for another population that may soon join their ranks: several thousand people accused or convicted of criminal offenses. Anthony Notaro At...
The Manhattan Detention Complex (colloquially known as "the Tombs") located at White and Centre Streets, may become the site for a new jail with a detainee headcount larger than that of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

April 4

1460 – University of Basel forms 1655 – Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates 1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son. 1850 – City of Los Angeles incorporated 1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. 1887...
This composite image of where Martin Luther King was assassinated was assembled by Joseph Louw from several hundred crime scene and found photos as well as stills from archival films.
Dear editor, Your article (BroadsheetDAILY March 28, 2018) highlights the two middle schools in the area that are part of a K-8 school where kids have the option to matriculate up versus leaving.  A more fair comparison would have been to highlight IS289 or LMC which are also in the area and as stand alone...

We Stand Corrected

The first quarter of 2018 was a good time to buy a condominium or co-op in Lower Manhattan, and a grim moment to be selling one. This is the consensus view of a slew of market research reports that were issued on Monday by leading real estate firms. Analyses by the Corcoran Group, Stripling, and...
Battery Park City and the Financial District were Manhattan's slowest moving market in the first quarter of 2018.

A Book Club Clio Would Love

The Fraunces Tavern Museum (54 Pearl Street) is hosting a new American history-centric book club, with a particular focus on the Revolutionary Era. The club will meet quarterly and be led by the Museum’s Executive Director, Jessica B. Phillips. The first meeting is slated for Tuesday April 10 at 6:00 pm., and will feature discussion...

April 3

1764 – Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king 1776 – Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College 1856 – Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos 1868 – An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50′ tidal wave 1910 – Highest mountain in North America, Alaska’s Mt...
Jane Goodall and friend