LETTERS

To the editor: The opening of the iPic movie complex in the historical South Street Seaport area marks an historical occasion for the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Instead of being the first major movie house to geographically service the large population while complementing its unique seafaring location, it vividly illustrates another glaring symbol of...

How Lower Manhattan Voted: The Financial District

(Editor’s Note: This is the second in an occasional series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series will look at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on the Financial District.) In the Financial District, according...

Today in History

539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. 1492 – Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies. 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. 1692 – The Salem...
On October 12th 1799 Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse became the first woman to parachute from an altitude of 900 meters

The 17th Annual Run for Knowledge

The 17th Annual Run for Knowledge will stampede up the Esplanade on Friday, October 14, starting at 5:00 pm. The annual fall fundraiser, fun run, and family festival benefits enrichment programs at three of Battery Park City’s public schools: P.S./I.S. 276, P.S. 89, and I.S. 289. The one-mile course starts in Wagner Park and follows...

How Lower Manhattan Voted: Battery Park City

(Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series will look at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on Battery Park City.) The 65th Assembly District stretches...

Today in History

1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria. 1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. 1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand. 1811 – Inventor John Stevens’...