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Hope Floats

Shimon Attie, a visual artist who first made his reputation in the 1990s by projecting slides of scenes from Jewish life in Germany before World War Two onto the sides of buildings in modern Berlin, will be treating Lower Manhattan residents to a silent film about asylum seekers for the next several nights. The film,...
Safe Harbor: A film about refugees and migration will be on display from a barge towed through local waters for the next several nights.

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A Minyan of Exiles

At the January 23 meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), James Kaplan, president of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, previewed what he described as, “our newest and greatest upcoming project. We will be applying for a co-naming of South William Street, in front of Millennium High School, in honor of the Mill Street Synagogue, which...
This map from 1900 attempts to recreate the location of the Mill Street Synagogue by combing tracings of earlier maps (from the 1700 and 1800s) with a superimposed view of the then-contemporary street grid.

ONCE AGAIN

To the editor: Once again, it has become critically, crucially clear that the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC) in its collaboration with The Howard Hughes Corp about the future of the Historical Tin Building historical and other actions,  past, present and future plans is the WRONG city agency to oversee the current and future existence...

Is Lower Manhattan Coral Island or Vulgaria?

A slew of sources have recently deemed Battery Park City the child-friendliest neighborhood in Manhattan (or anywhere in New York City), while at least one source says the Financial District is among the City’s least hospitable communities for children. The 2017 ratings by Niche.com, an online database that helps users determine which neighborhoods (and which...

June 29

1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway. 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island. 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground. 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy. 1786 – Alexander...
Construction of the Interstate Highway System, which started in 1956.