1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. Three months later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor declared him an outlaw and…
Month: January 2017
The POPS Heads Uptown
This year the New York Philharmonic celebrating its 175 anniversary has requested that certain New York City groups perform their own version of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, the New York Philharmonic’s first concert performance 175 years ago. One of those groups is Lower Manhattan’s TriBattery Pops. Tom Goodkind, the founder and conductor, spent the better…
Interesting Thames
The owner of two historic skyscrapers in the Financial District is proposing to close the street that separates the buildings and turn the thoroughfare into a block-long retail plaza. The block in question in Thames Street, which stretches for 270 feet between Broadway and Trinity Place, just south of Zuccotti Park. For decades, Thames Street…