Today’s Calendar

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10:30AM
Zumba Jumpstart
Battery Park City Parks

Join a fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and more! Enthusiastic instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new steps each week. Bring your friends and share in this fit and fun dancing community. 6 River Terrace. FREE

12:30PM

Blitz Chess
Battery Park City Parks
A lunch time program for passersby on their lunch break to play chess. Actually, not just chess…Blitz chess! Blitz chess is a form of speed chess played on a clock where each opponent gets five minutes. It is fast, furious and fun. Rockefeller Park House. FREE

2PM
Culture Connections
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

Touch, investigate, inquire and learn. Objects and images tell profound stories. Join Cultural Interpreters as they share objects and narratives in our galleries. Gain a deeper understanding of history, culture, and art from hundreds of Indigenous nations in North, Central, and South America. One Bowling Green. FREE

5:30PM
True Crime Book Club
New York Public Library

A new book club for readers who love scary stories even more so when they are true: Battery Park City Library’s True Crime book club! This will be the groups first time meeting and to start it off, we will be reading “”Killers of the Flower Moon”” by David Grann. Books for the following months will be decided by participants at the end of this inital book discussion. Battery Park City branch of the New York Public Library. North End Avenue. FREE
6PM
Transportation & Street Activity Permits Committee
Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
AGENDA

1) Stop Sign Request for Peck Slip & Front Street – Resolution
2) Make Way For Lower Manhattan/Slow Streets proposal – Discussion
3) LafayetteBikeLaneproposal-Discussion
4) Street Co-Naming Working Group – Report
5) Congestion Pricing – Report
6) Ann Street congestion – Discussion (Tentative)

The following notices have been received for recurring street closure permits:

The Happening; Sunday, May 19, 2019; 11:00AM – 4:00PM
 White Street between Church St and Broadway

DOT Summer Streets 2019; August 3 – August 17, 2019
 (Saturdays only); 7AM – 1PM
* Centre Street between Chambers St & Worth St
* Lafayette Street between Duane St & East 8 St

World Trade Center Festival; Sunday, October 13, 2019; 10AM – 6PM
* Liberty Street between Broadway & Trinity Pl

Veterans Day Festival; Monday, November 11, 2019; 10AM – 6PM
* Broadway between Liberty St & Battery Pl

Financial Community Fall Fair; Friday, November 15, 2019; 10AM – 6PM
* Liberty Street between Broadway & Trinity Pl

7:30PM
The Golem
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

A dramatic reading of H. Leivick’s classic 1921 retelling of the legendary Golem of Prague delves into the world of mysticism as a meditation on the effect of violence on the Jewish soul. In Yiddish with English supertitles. RSVP required. 36 Battery Place.