Battery Park City has many children who would love to Trick or Treat. If you are planning to be home for Halloween, on October 31, between 5:00 and 8:00 PM and will welcome children Trick or Treating to your door, please add your name and apartment to the Trick-or-Treat list on-line at http://www.bpcblockparty.com/halloween.
1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France. Constructed between 1194 and 1250, Chartres is the last of at least five which have occupied the site since the 4th century. The majority of the original stained glass windows survive intact, while the architecture has seen only minor changes...
(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in an occasional series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series will look at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on Chinatown and Little Italy.) In the recent primary...
The City Board of Election's official map of the 31st Election District designates a footprint one half a block long from north to south, and considerably less than that distance from east to west. State Board of elections records indicate that only one voter is registered in this minuscule Election District, but almost three percent of all the votes cast in the communities of Chinatown and Little Italy were nonetheless recorded here.
Please join the Tribeca Chamber Players at 2pm on Sunday, October 23 at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center as we kick off our second performance cycle of all the Beethoven string quartets in chronological order. This Sunday we will share Beethoven’s first and second quartets: Opus 18 No. 3 followed by Opus 18 No....
Please join the Tribeca Chamber Players at 2pm on Sunday, October 23 at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center as we kick off our second performance cycle of all the Beethoven string quartets in chronological order. This Sunday we will share Beethoven’s first and second quartets: Opus 18 No. 3 followed by Opus 18 No....
1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch. 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan. 1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks...
The Museum under construction in photo taken on Nov. 12, 1957