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Libations, Exertion, and Socialization

The debut of one new venue for eating and drinking, plus two free events will round out this weekend in Lower Manhattan. City Vineyards, the new outpost of City Winery located in the Hudson River Park on Pier 26 (near North Moore Street) fully opens tonight, after a “soft” debut in the middle of the...

July 11

1405- Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world. 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. 1936 – The Triborough Bridge is opened to traffic. Renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge...
The Triborough Bridge from a bird's-eye view in 1936, the year it opened to the public.

July 8

951 – Paris is founded 1693 – The City of New York authorizes the first police uniforms in American colonies 1836 – HMS Beagle carrying Charles Darwin, the respected naturalist and geologist, reaches Saint Helena for six days as his last stop before returning to Great Britain 1845 – Fire in Lower Manhattan destroys 345...
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy standing on one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroad's S1 steam locomotive

Valediction: Catherine McVay Hughes

For more than a decade, residents of Lower Manhattan have benefited from the protection, advocacy, and vision of a staunch civic champion. During that time, Catherine McVay Hughes has served not only as chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), but has also lobbied relentlessly for programs to protect the health of Downtown residents affected by...
Catherine McVay Hughes

July 1

70 – Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem 1517 – First burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands 1517 – Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal 1535 – Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason 1656 – First Quakers, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin arrive in Bostonand subsequently...
Charles Robert Darwin 1809 - 1882 "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

June 27

1542 – Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria,King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. In was the last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. 1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black...
John Dean, Richard Nixon's White House counsel testifying before the Watergate Committee