February 24

303 – First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 1510 – Pope Julius II excommunicates the Republic of Venice 1839 – Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia 1909 – The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded. Beginning in 1909, the Hudson Motor Car Company made Hudson and other brand automobiles in Detroit....
1955 Hudson Wasp. Hudson's peak was in 1929, when the company produced no less than 300,000 Hudson and Essex cars worldwide

The Newest Place to Get High

An engineering marvel is nearing completion outside the windows of Lower Manhattan residents. The Bayonne Bridge, the longest steel-arch span in the world at the time of its 1931 opening (and now holder of the fifth-place title), just got a lot loftier. This is the result of developments half a world away — specifically, in...

February 23

303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia. 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western...
Suprematist Composition. White on White is an abstract oil-on-canvas painting by Kazimir Malevich. It is one of the more well-known examples of the Russian Suprematism movement, painted the year after the October Revolution.

Next Stop, Canada…

In the next three years, a multitude of hikers and long-distance cyclists may join the throngs that already crowd Lower Manhattan. The administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo plans to create a statewide, 750-mile network of bicycling and walking trails that will begin in Battery Park City and reach the Canadian border. More than 300 miles...
The Lower Manhattan bike path maintained by the Hudson River Park Trust may soon anchor a statewide network of 750 miles of pedestrian and cycling trails, if a proposal by Governor Andrew Cuomo is implemented.

Of the People, By the People, for the People…

Three State lawmakers representing Lower Manhattan have introduced bills in both houses of the Albany legislature that would require the governor to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). State Senator Daniel Squadron and Assembly members Deborah Glick and Yuh-Line Niou are sponsoring...
State Senator Daniel Squadron

February 22

705 – Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty. 1632 – Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans troops. 1853 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St....
The Great White Fleet, consisting of 14,000 sailors on 16 battleships and accompanying vessels, was sent around the world for fourteen months by President Roosevelt. The fleet's journey started on December 16, 1907, and concluded on February 22, 1909.