558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt. 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles. 1697 – Stockholm’s royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced by the current Royal Palace)....
Lusitania arriving in New York. During her eight-year service, she made a total of 202 crossings on the Cunard Line's Liverpool-New York Route. On this day in 1915 she was sunk by a German submarine and lies approximately 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale Lighthouse in 300 ft of water.
An analysis of Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, parsed by data about personal income and indebtedness, yields two insights. First, people who live Downtown are doing very well financially. Second, they are in hock up to their eyeballs. This information comes from LendEDU.com (pronounced “Lend-E-D-U”), an online marketplace for student loan refinancing, which functions a bit like...
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire 1494 – On his second voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica 1780 – American Academy of Arts & Sciences forms in Boston 1855 – NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration 1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of...
Hand-colored photo of Lower Manhattan showing the Battery, piers on the Hudson, Castle Clinton, the Singer Building, the Woolworth Building, 90 West Street, 17 Battery Place, the original Pier A ( before the clocktower commemorating WWl veterans), the elevated railroad ( which became the #1 subway line) and the three bridges in 1911.
To the editor, South Street Seaport Museum is a landmark historical treasure. It offers a real, physical presence of old moored ships, period shops, and a large museum filled with relics of ancient seaport activities and history located whose housing is the museum’s early nineteenth century buildings. NYC is now determining how to spend its...
On Saturday, April 29th, South Street Seaport Museum supporters, volunteers, sponsors and founders gathered as Captain Jonathan Boulware, executive director, kicked off a year of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the museum’s founding. Behind him was Lightship AMBROSE, an artifact of New York maritime history, bobbing in the East River waves with its...
The Seaport Museum's ceremony with the ringing of the AMBROSE Bell
A bill that would require Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of the seven seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has passed the New York State Assembly with near-unanimous support. On Tuesday, all 139 members of the lower house of the State legislature who were...
