Petition: Funding Request for Lower Manhattan Pedestrian Traffic Safety and Mobility Study https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/lower-manhattan-mobility-study With a street grid from the Dutch settlement and Colonial era, overlaid with modern residential high rises and a 24/7 live-work community, Lower Manhattan faces unique challenges from car, bus and truck traffic, garbage collection, and pedestrian and tourist flows. Manhattan’s Community...
Tomorrow night (Tuesday, December 6), the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will discuss plans by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to redesign Wagner Park to strengthen it against future storm surges. The Committee will also hear a presentation by the design team from Perkins Eastman, the consulting firm hired by...
1409 – The University of Leipzig opens. 1697 – St Paul’s Cathedral is consecrated in London. 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French. 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns...
The Church Street School for Music and Art will host its annual weekend Gingerbread House Decorating Workshops beginning tomorrow December 3 and 4, and again on Dec 10 and 11, 17 and 18. To register, or request information, please call 212-571-7290 or click here. The Church Street School for Music and Art is located at...
Starting this weekend, Asphalt Green will be hosting a three-part series of Saturday cooking class for kids, aged five to nine years old, in partnership with Butter Beans, a group that provides school lunches and food education programs at 15 independent schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The Asphalt Green program will focus on the...