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Why Is This Sunday Different from All Other Sundays?

The Museum of Jewish Heritage will partner with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) to present a kid-friendly “Pop-Up Passover” this Sunday (March 25), from 10:00 am to noon. The event will feature old and new Passover traditions, Yiddish songs, create personalized Haggadot (the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of...

Today in History March 20

141 – 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 1760 – Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings 1815 – Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” published 1861 – An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina 1890 – German Emperor Wilhelm II fires Republic...
Sergei V Rachmaninoff

March 14

1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1558 – Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman Emperor 1743 – First American town meeting (Boston’s Faneuil Hall) 1757 – On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty “Pour encourager les...
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‘Vox Clamantis in Landfill’

Some sections of Battery Park City are effectively invisible to the City’s 311 service and complaint hub, which fielded 36 million requests in 2016 alone. According to a presentation by Lucian Reynolds at the March 6 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), several areas of New York City that...
The City's 311 system appears to field relatively few complaints and requests for service (represented by yellow circles) from Battery Park City,relative to the rest of Lower Manhattan. But this may be a function of a jurisdictional ambiguity that purges such inquiries from data archives.

National Lighthouse Museum Presents

On Thursday March 15, the National Lighthouse Museum will present Bill Miller, an international authority on the subject of ocean liners and cruise ships.  Mr. Miller will give a 45 minute talk about the Port of New York and all the great ships that have visited. Includes will be those great ships of the past,...
Passenger Ship Terminal

Celebrating Washington’s 286th Birthday And Benefiting Fraunces Tavern Museum

On February 16, 2018,  Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc.  hosted the 141st Annual George Washington Birthday Ball in honor of George Washington and to benefit Fraunces Tavern Museum. Even Martha danced at George’s party. This year’s Distinguished Patriot Award was presented to Robert M. S. McDonald of the United States...
Ambrose Richardson, President of the SRNY with Robert M. S. McDonald of the United States Military Academy, the evening's honoree and Fraunces Tavern Museum Executive Director, Jessica B. Phillips.