Month: November 2018

DOWNTOWN CALENDAR November 30, December 1 & 2

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 1PM Fraunces Tavern Museum Guided Tour Guided tour at Fraunces Tavern Museum. Free with admission $7, $14. 54 Pearl Street. http://frauncestavernmuseum.org 1PM Pipes at One St. Paul’s Chapel Featuring the celebrated three-manual Noack organ that was inaugurated in the spring of 2018, these innovative, free programs showcase leading organists and rising stars from...

Today in History November 30

977 – Emperor Otto II lifts the siege at Paris and withdraws. His rearguard is defeated while crossing the Aisne River by Frankish forces under King Lothair III. 1707 – The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida. 1782 –  In Paris, representatives from the...
Benjamin West's American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Negotiations with Great Britain - the British officers involved refused to sit for the painting

Welcome to Fête City

Ready or not, the Holiday Season is now upon Lower Manhattan. Santa Claus is coming to Brookfield Place, now through December 24, from noon to 8:00 pm on Tuesdays through Fridays, 10:00 am to 8:00 pm on Saturdays, and 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Sundays (closed Mondays, except December 24). Photos are available (for...

Clemency for Lower Manhattan

In what could be a major victory for Lower Manhattan community leaders and elected officials, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has backed away from a plan to build a new, 40-story jail on top of a historic government office building at 80 Centre Street. This proposal was part of a broader push to...
A preliminary rendering of the 40-story prison complex that the City had planned to erect at 80 Centre Street -- a proposal that has now been abandoned.

Today in History

1520 – An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. 1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. 1785 – The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East...
Koenig & Bauer's steam-powered printing press

Drip, Drip, Drip…

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) plans to spend $600,000 to fix a leak in the roof of the Asphalt Green community center on North End Avenue. “From the outset there were some problems with leakage into the facility,” explained Gwen Dawson, the BPCA’s vice president for real property at the Authority’s October 29 board...
Asphalt Green