Month: January 2016

Battery Park City Parks Annual Art Exhibition

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy Annual Art Exhibition will have an opening reception on the corner of 2nd place and Battery Place on Sunday, January 31 from 1 pm to 3pm. This annual art exhibit features art created by all ages of the public that are in BPC Parks free programs. Although the opening reception...

Spate of 'Super-Tall' Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households

In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank...
The building now being constructed at the corner of Murray and West Streets will rise 62 floors, for a total of 822 feet, and house 139 apartments.

Spate of ‘Super-Tall’ Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households

In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank...
The building now being constructed at the corner of Murray and West Streets will rise 62 floors, for a total of 822 feet, and house 139 apartments.

Calendar Monday, January 25

Greenmarket Union Square: 8am – 6pm National Museum of the American Indian at Bowling Green 12pm  National Museum of the American Indian Glittering World: Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie family Tour. Introduction to the story of Navajo jewelry through the lens of the gifted Yazzi family of Gallup, NM. Featuring over 300 contemporary jewelry examples,visitors are...

Today in History January 25

1799 – First patent for a seeding machine is issued for Eliakim Spooner of Vermont 1825 – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York opens as the first engineering college in America 1840 – American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes first to identify Antarctica as a new continent 1863 – General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside...
USS Vincennes in Disappointment Bay, Antarctica, during the Wilkes expedition.

Today in History

1677 – The first medical publication in America, a pamphlet on smallpox, is distributed in Boston 1749 – The Verona Philharmonic Theatre was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1754 1793 – Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason 1818 – Keats writes his poem...