|
10AM
Drawing in the Park
Battery Park City Parks
Paint in watercolor, or use pastels, chalk, and charcoal to capture the magical vistas of the Hudson River and the unique landscape of South Cove. An artist/ educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Materials provided. FREE. South Cove. www.bpcparks.org
11AM
Alexander Hamilton’s New York
Museum of American Finance
90-minute walking tour of FiDi, with an emphasis on Alexander Hamilton’s contributions to financial history. $15. Tour meets outside 48 Wall Street. www.moaf.org
11AM
Elements of Nature Drawing
Battery Park City Parks
Get inspired by the beautiful expanse of the Hudson River & New York Harbor and by the verdant Wagner Park, with its very special Hot and Cool gardens; each flower-filled and colorful throughout the season. All art materials are provided. FREE. Wagner Park. www.bpcparks.org
12:30PM
Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Museum of American Finance
When the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country’s largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the city was indeed billions of dollars in the red, with no way to pay back its debts. Bankers and politicians alike seized upon the situation as evidence that social liberalism, which New York famously exemplified, was unworkable. The city had to slash services, freeze wages and fire thousands of workers, they insisted, or financial apocalypse would ensue. In Fear City-a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in History- Kim Phillips-Fein tells the remarkable story of the crisis that engulfed the city. With unions and ordinary citizens refusing to accept retrenchment, the budget crunch became a struggle over the soul of New York, pitting fundamentally opposing visions of the city against each other. Drawing on never-before-used archival sources and interviews with key players in the crisis, Fear City shows how the brush with bankruptcy permanently transformed New York-and reshaped ideas about government across America. Talk will be followed by Q&A and book signing. $5. 48 Wall Street. www.moaf.org
1PM
Adult Chorus
Battery Park City Parks
Directed by the Church Street School of Music, the chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year. FREE. 6 River Terrace. www.bpcparks.org
2:30PM
Figure Al Fresco
Battery Park City Parks
Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike both long and short poses for participants to draw. Artist/educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided. FREE. South Cove. www.bpcparks.org
3PM
Skyscraper Museum Curator’s Tour
Skyscraper Museum
Director and curator Carol Willis will lead a curator’s tour of the museum’s new exhibition Skyline. Free with admission $5, $2.50. 39 Battery Place. www.skyscraper.org
6PM
St. Paul’s Chapel Choir Auditions
St. Paul’s Chapel
Do you love to sing and want to be part of a community of music making? The St. Paul’s Chapel Choir welcomes volunteer singers from the parish, neighborhood, and greater New York area to audition for this new ensemble launching in January 2019. The Chapel Choir will sing for morning services on the first Sunday of each month at St. Paul’s Chapel and lead a congregational hymn-sing each season. Directed by Trinity’s associate organist Janet Yieh, this mixed SATB adult choir will learn a variety of liturgical choral repertoire from classical to contemporary and build positive community through music. At 6pm on Oct. 10 and 4pm on Oct. 11. FREE. Trinity Church. www.trinitywallstreet.org
7PM
After Charlottesville: Featuring Roberta Kaplan and Karen Dunn
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
Roberta Kaplan and Karen Dunn-two of America’s leading litigators-represent Charlottesville residents injured at the August 2017 white nationalist rally in a groundbreaking lawsuit against white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and affiliated hate groups. Their case is designed to make it clear that inciting and engaging in violence based on racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism has no place in this country. $5, $10, $15. 36 Battery Place. www.mjhnyc.org
7PM
The Mystery of Our Mathematical Universe
New York Academy of Sciences
Why is it that fundamental laws discovered through pure mathematics have been able to describe the behavior of our physical world with such precision? Given that the physical universe is comprised of mathematical properties, some have posited that mathematics is the language of the universe, whose laws reveal what appears to be a hidden order in the natural world. Physicist S. James Gates, Jr. and science writer Margaret Wertheim explore the uncanny ability of mathematics to reveal the mystery of our universe. $5-$15. 7 World Trade Center. www.nyas.org
—————————————————————————————-Licensing & Permits Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Community Board 1 – Conference Room
1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
Additional information about specific State Liquor Authority license applications is available by request to the Community Board 1 Office approvals@cb.nyc.gov 1) District Needs Statement and review for FY 2020 – Discussion
|
|
