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Lower Manhattan Pedestrian Traffic Safety and Mobility Study

Petition: Funding Request for Lower Manhattan Pedestrian Traffic Safety and Mobility Study https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/lower-manhattan-mobility-study With a street grid from the Dutch settlement and Colonial era, overlaid with modern residential high rises and a 24/7 live-work community, Lower Manhattan faces unique challenges from car, bus and truck traffic, garbage collection, and pedestrian and tourist flows. Manhattan’s Community...

Napkins Please

Steve Gordon feels most inspired after two vodka grapefruit drinks. His artistic muses often include sushi chefs and characters he observes at NYC bars. His father, Harry, also an artist, advised him that being an artist was a horrible way to make a living. So Steve pursued the law but stayed true to the arts,...

What Is Lower Manhattan’s Third Language?

Broadly speaking, New York City has three languages: English, Spanish, and Other. The first two are almost universally applicable, about as prevalent in the northern Bronx as in the stretches of Brooklyn and Staten Island that face the Atlantic Ocean. But the third is the most interesting, because it varies dramatically by location. In Astoria,...
An interactive map of Lower Manhattan showing the third-most common local language in each Census Tract_ with green signifying Chinese_ light blue representing French, and dark blue denoting "other Indo-European languages."

What Is Lower Manhattan's Third Language?

Broadly speaking, New York City has three languages: English, Spanish, and Other. The first two are almost universally applicable, about as prevalent in the northern Bronx as in the stretches of Brooklyn and Staten Island that face the Atlantic Ocean. But the third is the most interesting, because it varies dramatically by location. In Astoria,...
An interactive map of Lower Manhattan showing the third-most common local language in each Census Tract_ with green signifying Chinese_ light blue representing French, and dark blue denoting "other Indo-European languages."

Demography In Action: Young and Old in Lower Manhattan

(Editor’s Note: This is part an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by looking at data available from the City’s Data2Go.NYC website. This installment focuses on statistics about age.) Demographic information about age in any residential area is broken into zones called “census tracts,” established by the federal government for...

November 15

655 – Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. 1492 – Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco 1532 – Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn 1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam 1813 – Tax revolt in Amsterdam...
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