Time Lapse Cartography

“This is about how you tell the story of a neighborhood,” reflects, Abby Suckle, president of CultureNOW. “And Lower Manhattan is all about history.” This is how Ms. Suckle describes the vision behind an extraordinary new local atlas, the “Lower Manhattan: Then and NOW” map.” Ms. Suckle, an architect whose contribution to the Downtown streetscape...
CultureNow president Abby Suckle presents the organization's new mash-up map of Lower Manhattan's history to Community Board 1 in September.

Today in History

54 – Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him. 1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip the Fair, to be later tortured into a “confession” of heresy. 1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier. 1792 –...
A colorized, magnified electron microscope image of the Ebola virus growing out of an infected VERO 46 cell. Image by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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...