Today’s Calendar of Events for Lower Manhattan Tuesday September 17

8AM

Bird Walk with NYC Audubon

Explore the diversity of migrating birds that find food and habitat in The Battery. The walk will be led by Gabriel Willow, an educator from NYC Audubon. Meet at the Netherland Memorial Flagpole, at the intersection of Broadway, Battery Place, and State Street. Free The Battery Conservancy

10:30AM

Zumba Jumpstart

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.  Free. Battery Park City Authority

6PM

CB1’s Waterfront, Parks & Cultural Committee

1) Trust for Governors Island – Presentation by Clare Newman, President & CEO

2) Queuing at Statue of Liberty Cruises, the Battery/Hornblower, Pier 15 – Discussion with Captain Mark Phillips, Director of Marine and Facility Operations, Hornblower

3) South Street Seaport Museum Cultural Institutions Group Status – Resolution 

4) Floating billboards – Update

5) Ticket Hawkers – Update

6:30PM

Join us for a look at how spies communicated during the Revolutionary War! In this interactive lecture, historical interpreter Norman Goben will explore the successes and failures of Patriot spy rings and demonstrate their methods of communications. Hear about the agents of espionage who helped win the war, and learn how to code your own secret messages. $5, $10

 54 Pearl Street.

6:30PM

The Grandest Madison Square Garden

When completed in 1890, the (second) Madison Square Garden complex on the northeast corner of Manhattan’s Madison Square featured the tallest tower in the country, from its base to the 18-foot sculpture of a nude Diana.

 In The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York, art historian Suzanne Hinman examines the lives and achievements of the two creative minds behind the building, architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, as a gateway to explore the art, architecture, and popular entertainment of Gilded Age New York City. Reservations are required. Free 39 Battery Place.

7PM

The film Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Salomon Noach, a Dutch citizen who risked his life in Vichy, France to save hundreds from deportation to Auschwitz. Free 36 Battery Place.