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Free Museums and Music Light Up Lower Manhattan on the Longest Day of the Year

Tonight, as part of the 2016 River to River Festival, more than a dozen Lower Manhattan museums, cultural institutions, and historic landmarks will open their doors, free of charge, for Night at the Museums. Participating venues include the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the South Street Seaport Museum, the China Institute, the Museum of Jewish...
The Museum of American Finance's current exhibit Worth Its Weight: Gold from the Ground Up, captivates visitors with the many spectacular and unexpected ways gold has influenced our lives.

May 31

1279 BC – Ramesses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Egypt. 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France. 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright...
The Ford assembly line

Flood Risk Dampens Ardor for Lower Manhattan

Decision-makers who consider moving a business to Lower Manhattan are faced with many enticements, and one caveat, says a recent poll of more than 100 commercial property owners, brokers, agents, engineers, accountants and real estate lawyers. The survey, by accounting firm Marks Paneth, indicates that 70 percent of high-level real estate executives agree with developer...

Monkeying Around

A capacity crowd of several hundred diplomats, financiers, academics, and entertainment celebrities packed the Cipriani 42nd Street ballroom last Friday to welcome the Year of the Monkey with the China Institute, the nation’s leading nonprofit devoted to fostering closer ties between China and the United States. Banker and philanthropist Ted Wang, who serves on the...

Rare Design Element for a Lower Manhattan Skyscraper

Trinity Church continued its ongoing experiment with radically inclusive dialog about the structure it plans to build at 74 Trinity Place, with a community meeting last Saturday. Held at St. Paul’s Chapel, the four-hour session drew more than 70 area residents, who contributed ideas about how the new building can serve the Lower Manhattan community....
Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer
Trinity Church's new rector, the Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer at the March 14 brainstorming meeting, encourages the Lower Manhattan community to help design and program the building that will soon rise on Trinity Place.

To Dedicate the Viaduct

The founder of Battery Park City has proposed naming its last major piece of infrastructure in honor of a longtime civic champion of Lower Manhattan. Charles Urstadt, the founding president and chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, in a speech delivered at a January 28 dinner celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Downtown Alliance,...
Robert Douglass (left), longtime chairman of the Downtown Alliance, and Charles Urstadt (right), former president and chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, at a January dinner honoring the twentieth anniversary of the Alliance, where Mr. Urstadt proposed naming the planned West Thames Bridge in honor of Mr. Douglass.