Month: March 2017

An Atlas That’s Nothing to Shrug About

The Downtown Alliance has created an interactive, three-dimensional map of Lower Manhattan that zooms, swoops, pivots, and performs other visual acrobatics, while also searching through multiple data sets, such as residential, office, and hotel properties, as well as restaurants, retailers, transit facilities, cultural institutions, and parks. This convergence of information and imagery, known as LM3D...
LM3D, the new interactive, digital map from the Downtown Alliance, allows users to visualize information from multiple databases, and form a comprehensive picture of a community in flux.

March 1

293 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi (“Four Rulers of the World”). 1562 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion. 1565 – The city of...
Yellowstone National Park is a nearly 3,500-sq.-mile wilderness area atop a volcanic hot spot. Mostly in Wyoming, the park spreads into parts of Montana and Idaho.

Flip This Hotel

The gold rush in Lower Manhattan real estate continues to make fortunes for those invest here, but much less of a difference in the lives of people who live or work here. The most recent case in point is the Courtyard New York Marriott Downtown, at 133 Greenwich Street (near the corner with Thames Street),...
The new hotel at 133 Greenwich Street was recently sold by its developers for a profit of $183 million.