Tribeca Nocturne
Immigrant Pianist Who Inspired Federal Legislation is Honored
What Is Lower Manhattan's Third Language?
Broadly speaking, New York City has three languages: English, Spanish, and Other. The first two are almost universally applicable, about as prevalent in the northern Bronx as in the stretches of Brooklyn and Staten Island that face the Atlantic Ocean. But the third is the most interesting, because it varies dramatically by location. In Astoria,...
What Is Lower Manhattan’s Third Language?
Broadly speaking, New York City has three languages: English, Spanish, and Other. The first two are almost universally applicable, about as prevalent in the northern Bronx as in the stretches of Brooklyn and Staten Island that face the Atlantic Ocean. But the third is the most interesting, because it varies dramatically by location. In Astoria,...
November 22
845 – 845 : The first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 1794 – Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards 1809 – Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen 1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts 1919 –...
Demography In Action: Young and Old in Lower Manhattan
(Editor’s Note: This is part an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by looking at data available from the City’s Data2Go.NYC website. This installment focuses on statistics about age.) Demographic information about age in any residential area is broken into zones called “census tracts,” established by the federal government for...
November 21
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact 1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight. 1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war. 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a...
National Museum of the American Indian Begins Construction of imagiNATIONS Activity Center
Too often people think Manhattan began with the Dutch settlers 400 years ago and it’s rarely acknowledged there was a whole civilization here before us. So it was fitting that at the southern tip of Manhattan, former home of the Lenape Indians, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) announced the commencement (“starting tomorrow,”...
