Month: October 2016

He’s Baaack! Beethoven, that is.

Please join the Tribeca Chamber Players at 2pm on Sunday, October 23 at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center as we kick off our second performance cycle of all the Beethoven string quartets in chronological order. This Sunday we will share Beethoven’s first and second quartets: Opus 18 No. 3 followed by Opus 18 No....
Ludwig Beethoven

Today in History

1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch. 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan. 1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks...
The Museum under construction in photo taken on Nov. 12, 1957

Good Timing

On October 13th, Tissot celebrated the opening of their new World Trade Center boutique location with a cocktail reception featuring music by “The Voice” star Garrett Gardner. Food and beverage provided by Choza Taqueria and Pure Liquid as well as expert advice on the purchase and care of the mechanical and quartz line of Tissot...

National Archives to Host Discussion about Gender Equality

Today, Friday (October 21), the National Archives and the National Archives Foundation will host the third in its “National Conversations” series, in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The discussion, titled, “Amending America: Women’s Rights and Gender Equality,” will be focused on issues surrounding comparative opportunity and egalitarianism between the sexes,...

What Hath the Flock Wrought?

Tomorrow (Saturday, October 22), Trinity Church will unveil the results of its unprecedented experiment in radically inclusive dialog about the structure it plans to build at 74 Trinity Place. The process began in February, 2015, when it invited the Lower Manhattan community to help determine the form and use of a new skyscraper it will...
A preliminary design by architectural firm Clarke Pelli Clarke for the new mixed-use tower that Trinity Church plans to erect behind it historic sanctuary.

The Wall Street Bourse

Let’s face it: Alexander Hamilton is having his moment. The rest of the world knows two things about the Renaissance Man of the American Revolution, one old and one new: that he was killed in a duel with that era’s archetypal loathsome toad, Aaron Burr, and is now the subject of a brilliant Broadway musical....
The New York Clearing House building at 77 Cedar Street, depicted here in a print that will be displayed at the Wall Street Collector's Bourse, was where banks settled accounts with each other every day, and was part of the banking system that Alexander Hamilton helped to create.