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Restaurant Week Includes 45 Downtown Eateries

The Fulton, by renowned chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten (located within Pier 17 at 89 South Street) is among the dozens of high-end Lower Manhattan eateries participating in this summer’s Restaurant Week.

New York’s annual food celebration, Restaurant Week, starts today (Monday, July 18) and continues for five weeks, wrapping up on Sunday, August 21. For those disinclined to venture above Canal Street, the good news is that of all the 659 establishments participating throughout the City this summer, almost four dozen are located in Lower Manhattan. Most restaurants are offering a selection of $30, $45, and $60 two-course lunches and $30, $45, and $60 three-course dinners. In many of these locations, the everyday prices are significantly higher than Restaurant Week offerings, which makes this value proposition a compelling opportunity to try places that might ordinarily be outside your budget. Because seats go fast, please call ahead to confirm availability and make a reservation.

Preserving ‘a Postmodern Idiosyncratic Folly’

CB1 Considers Whether the Juxtaposition of Old and New Is Better Than Old and Newer

Community Board 1 is urging the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to reject a proposal by a developer to redesign the street-level facade of a Wall Street skyscraper. At issue is the postmodernist office tower at 60 Wall Street, which opened in 1989.

Eyes to the Sky, July 2022

Cosmos of starry skies reflected in Earth’s fireflies

Images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope offer stunning views of the universe. See the images here.

In dark sky locations on July nights, the cosmos of stars meets and seems to blend with brilliant, flashing firefly lights in the space between treetops and ground in a great, animated surround. At nightfall, blinking lightning bugs stream over wild meadows, fallow hay fields, parks and gardens where artificial light is minimized—leaving the awe-struck stargazer rapt in Earth’s near atmosphere that is alive with luminescent, courting beetles. But light pollution is destructive to fireflies and humans alike. Seek out dark areas within the city and head out to dark enclaves in the boroughs and beyond.

Judy Isacoff

Calendar

Monday, July 18

10:30am-11:30am

Irish Hunger Memorial Plaza

The instructor will lead you in rhythmic movement and aerobics, balance and coordination exercises, as well as strength training. Join the group and workout to great music! Free.

3:45pm-4:30pm

Rockefeller Park Basketball Court

Practice the basics of basketball with fun and challenging games on adjustable height hoops with drills for all levels. Free.

Tuesday, July 19

10:30am-11:30am

6 River Terrace

Easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography. Free.

12:30pm-1:30pm

Blitz Chess & Backgammon

Rockefeller Park House

A lunch time program for passersby to play a quick game of chess or backgammon. Using clocks, opponents will play 5 minute games that are fast, furious and fun. An instructor will be on hand to offer pointers and tips to improve your game. Free.

1pm

Patrick Bird’s Birdman Sextet. To watch online live, go to Trinity’s homepage at the time of the performance. Free.

3:30pm-5pm

Rockefeller Park

Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. For ages 5 and up (adults welcome). Free.

5pm

Livestreamed tour of London’s financial district, the heart of the city’s Jewish history from 1066 on. Visit St. Paul’s Cathedral, the side of a medieval Mikveh, the place where a Jewish doctor was put on trial and sentenced to death, the amazing London Guildhall, the site of the Great Synagogue, and the house of the Lord Mayor of London, and more. $36.

Wednesday, July 20

10am-12pm

Rector Park East

Observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. An artist/educator will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Drawing materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media. Free.

11am-5pm

Take a self guided tour of the tall ship Wavertree, and visit the 12 Fulton Street galleries to view exhibitions. Through Sunday. Free.

2pm-4pm

Wagner Park

An artist/ educator will provide ideas and instruction. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media. Free.

6pm-7pm

Rockefeller Park House

Strengthen the body and cultivate awareness in a relaxed environment as your instructor guides you through alignments and poses. All levels are welcome. Bring your own mate. Free.

6pm

Conversation with New York City-based artists Tatiana Arocha and Sarah Cameron Sunde who will discuss their environmentally inspired projects presented at Brookfield Place. The discussion will be moderated by Kendal Henry, who has thirty years of experience curating exhibitions, specializing in public art projects across the globe, including Tatiana’s artwork at Brookfield Place. The panel will explore the ways each artist incorporate elements of earth and water in their practice to call attention to society’s complex relationship with and impact on the environment. Free.

6:30pm

Pier 17

Concert.

Lower Manhattan Greenmarkets

Tribeca Greenmarket

Greenwich Street & Chambers Street

Wednesdays and Saturdays, 8am-3pm (compost program: Saturdays, 8am-1pm)

Bowling Green Greenmarket

Broadway & Whitehall St

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8am-5pm (compost program: 8am-11am)

World Trade Center Oculus Greenmarket

Tuesdays, 8am-5pm

The Outdoor Fulton Stall Market

91 South Street, between Fulton & John Streets

Indoor market: Monday through Saturday,11:30am-5pm

CSA pick-up: Thursday, 4pm-6pm; Friday, 11:30-5pm

Outdoor market: Saturdays, 11:30am-5pm

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64 – Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

1536 – Pope’s authority declared void in England

1743 – First half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)

1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes “Mein Kampf” (original title: “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”)

1938 – Douglas ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28-hour flight. He had supposedly left New York and headed for California.

1966 – Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old

1986 – Videotapes released showing Titanic’s sunken remains

1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter

Births

1635 – Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, scientist (Micrographia)

1895 – George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly, American gangster, (d. 1954)

1897 – E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)

1918 – Nelson Mandela, see above.

1921 – John H Glenn Jr, astronaut, Senator D-Oh (d. 2016)

1937 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)

1950 – Richard Branson, British entrepreneur

Deaths

1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist, dies at 41

1954 – George ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly, American gangster, dies at 59

1958 – Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer, dies at 84

1997 – Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer (co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet), dies at 69

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