Month: October 2016

Today in History

539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. 1492 – Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies. 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. 1692 – The Salem...
On October 12th 1799 Jeanne Genevieve Labrosse became the first woman to parachute from an altitude of 900 meters

The 17th Annual Run for Knowledge

The 17th Annual Run for Knowledge will stampede up the Esplanade on Friday, October 14, starting at 5:00 pm. The annual fall fundraiser, fun run, and family festival benefits enrichment programs at three of Battery Park City’s public schools: P.S./I.S. 276, P.S. 89, and I.S. 289. The one-mile course starts in Wagner Park and follows...

How Lower Manhattan Voted: Battery Park City

(Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series will look at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on Battery Park City.) The 65th Assembly District stretches...

Today in History

1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo, Syria. 1614 – Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. 1809 – Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder’s Stand. 1811 – Inventor John Stevens’...

Mecca for Millennials

If walking the streets of Lower Manhattan makes you feel a tad ancient these days, it’s not your imagination. The square mile below Chambers Street is now home to more than 21,000 millennials (people aged between 18 and 34), and the median age among all Lower Manhattan residents is 32 years old, according to a...

Today in History

1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet. 1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued. 1763 –...
Allen Ginsberg