Calendar of Events in Lower Manhattan 1/21/20

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Tuesday 1/21/20
10:30AM
Zumba Jumpstart
6 River Terrace
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.  Battery Park City Authority FREE
1:30PM
Stretching the Canvas Exhibition Tour
National Museum of the American Indian
A 45-minute tour of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting. Drawing from the National Museum of the American Indian’s rich permanent collection, the exhibition presents nearly 40 paintings that transcend, represent or subvert conventional ideas of authenticity. One Bowling Green. FREE
2PM
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour
National Museum of the American Indian
Join a Museum Ambassador for a tour of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Tour highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, architect Cass Gilbert, viewing the Collectors office with Tiffany woodwork; Reginald Marsh murals; and the 140 ton Rotunda Dome by Raphael Gustavino. One Bowling Green. FREE
6PM
Waterfront, Parks & Cultural Committee

Community Board 1 – Conference Room  1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
AGENDA
1) Battery Park City Ballfields & Recreation – Update by Nick Sbordone, Battery Park City Authority*
2) Finn Square Temporary Art Installation – Presentation by Naiomy Rodriguez, NYC Parks & Recreation
3) DeLury Square Park Construction Schedule – Update by Paul Goldstein, Committee Chair
4) Hudson River Park Trust Act and Pier 40 – Update by Andrew Zelter, Community Board 1 member

7:30PM
The Trials of Thomas Morton: an Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for New England
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Book club meeting. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian peoples and English colonists could coexist. Infamous for dancing around a maypole in defiance of his Pilgrim neighbors, Morton was reviled by the Puritans for selling guns to the Natives. Colonial authorities exiled him three separate times from New England, but Morton kept returning to fight for his beliefs. This compelling counter-narrative sheds new light on the tumultuous formative decades of the American experience. 54 Pearl Street. $15