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Demand for School Space Increases as Financial District becomes the Diaper District

September 24, 2018 By

This month, Blue School is opening a 40,000 square-foot campus at 156 William Street to house students in grades four through eight. The new space will allow Blue School to double its enrollment over the next ten years. The school hopes to cement their dedication to the FIDI and South St. Seaport neighborhoods with the […]

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Filed Under: The Arts 1:07 pm

Hope Floats

September 24, 2018 By

Shimon Attie, a visual artist who first made his reputation in the 1990s by projecting slides of scenes from Jewish life in Germany before World War Two onto the sides of buildings in modern Berlin, will be treating Lower Manhattan residents to a silent film about asylum seekers for the next several nights. The film, […]

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Wildlife in Lower Manhattan

September 24, 2018 By

Downtown resident Patrick Sheldon reports a sighting: Meet the Great Egret. That long neck is pulled in when he flies and those wings appeared to be more than four feet across in the air. The egret can have four- to five-foot wingspans. He appeared the day of the paddleboard races (September 25th) and there were […]

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EYES TO THE SKY September 18-30, 2018

September 20, 2018 By

At nightfall, look for the Great Square of Pegasus suspended above the eastern horizon. The Great Square is an easy to recognize pattern that is shaped by three stars of the constellation Pegasus – the winged horse of ancient Greek mythology – and one star belonging to Andromeda, the constellation that follows Pegasus in the […]

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Today in History September 20

September 20, 2018 By

1498 – The  Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kotoku-in in Japan. The Buddha now sits on open air. 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with just under three-hundred men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe. 1737 – […]

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Tales of Derring-Do During Spy Week

September 20, 2018 By

Nestled in the heart of the Financial District lies Fraunces Tavern Museum, where familiar words and traces of forgotten history are illuminated. On the ground floor at 54 Pearl Street, a jazzy tune drifts out of the roped-off bar to the left, and clinking plates and chattering tourists and Wall Street workers are reminders that this tavern has […]

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