A professor at the Pratt Institute who harnesses publicly available data to address urban-planning questions has discovered that the New York Police Department (NYPD) wrote more than $19,000 in tickets for a legal parking space in Battery Park City. Ben Wellington, who teaches at Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and also writes the I Quant...
451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius’ battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. 1248 – The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter. 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the ‘United States’. 1789...
Spend tonight (Tuesday, June 20) exploring the City’s history and heritage at the fourth annual Night at the Museums, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. The event, part of the 2017 River to River Festival, will give locals and tourists alike the chance to see Lower Manhattan’s diverse range of cultural institutions and historical sites —...
1306 – The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America. 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields...
Tucked away on the third floor of the U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green, above the National Museum of the American Indian, is an unassuming room filled with a few dozen computers, some printers, and a couple of staff members and volunteers. Give that this office is the National Archives at New York City, it...
Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday nominated three new appointees to fill empty seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), one of whom is a part-time resident of Battery Park City, another of whom lives elsewhere in Lower Manhattan, while the third has no direct connection to the community, but has extensive...