Tribeca Committee To Meet Tonight

1) 95 West Broadway, application for liquor license for Tribeca Hotel LLC d/b/a Cosmopolitan Hotel – Resolution 2) 20 Warren Street, application for restaurant liquor license by 20 Lodge Associates LLC – Resolution 3) Worth Street Reconstruction Project – Update by Department of Design and Construction The meeting takes place at 6pm at Community Board...
The Cosmopolitan Hotel before her recent hue enhancement

Today in History

868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book 1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by...
The brilliant Dali

If You Want the Plan to Work, Get a Working Group

Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling upon the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and elected officials representing Lower Manhattan to reconvene the Seaport Working Group, a panel of local leaders and stakeholders that met over a four-month period in 2014 and reviewed development proposals for the South Street Seaport. At the end of its...
A rendering of the Howard Hughes Corporation's vision for the landmarked Tin Building, which is to be elevated, moved slightly, and reconfigured as a dining destination. This plan has cleared several regulatory hurdles, but has yet to break ground.

Not So Alone in Trinity Churchyard

He’s cut quite the figure for more than a century, standing alone in Trinity churchyard. Hamilton-just steps away-is who everyone seems to come for, but then are all drawn to the large bronze looming to the left. All lawyer robe and courtroom wig turned away to face Broadway. Not a hint of flesh from here-even...

Attention All Church-Goers

In a series of Town Hall meetings that began in April and will continue on May 11, 19 and 25, Lisa Ecklund-Flores, founder of the Church Street School for Music and Art, is leading a community dialog about what the non-profit Tribeca institution can become in the years ahead. The public is invited to hear...
Lisa Ecklund-Flores with board members and supporters of Church Street School for Music and Art at a recent fundraising event

Today in History

28 BCE – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci  leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas...
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVl