All’s Well That Mends Well

Bring Them Your Torn Jeans, Your Broken Jewelry, Your Malfunctioning Appliances Yearning to Work Again

Lower Manhattan Pedestrian Traffic Safety and Mobility Study

Petition: Funding Request for Lower Manhattan Pedestrian Traffic Safety and Mobility Study https://campaigns.transalt.org/petition/lower-manhattan-mobility-study With a street grid from the Dutch settlement and Colonial era, overlaid with modern residential high rises and a 24/7 live-work community, Lower Manhattan faces unique challenges from car, bus and truck traffic, garbage collection, and pedestrian and tourist flows. Manhattan’s Community...

The Urge to Purge the Surge

Tomorrow night (Tuesday, December 6), the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will discuss plans by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to redesign Wagner Park to strengthen it against future storm surges. The Committee will also hear a presentation by the design team from Perkins Eastman, the consulting firm hired by...
This image shows the possible location of flood barriers in Wagner Park (dotted red line), along with the positions of similar storm protection systems in Battery Park (solid red line at upper right) and along the Esplanade (solid red line at lower left). But while planning has begun for such a project in Wagner Park, no such plans have been announced for either of the adjoining areas.

December 2

1409 – The University of Leipzig opens. 1697 – St Paul’s Cathedral is consecrated in London. 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French. 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns...
In May 1927, after 15 million Model Ts were produced, Henry Ford closed his factories and began to retool for a new Model that would be known as the "Baby Lincoln." (The Model T was nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie".) Among the Model A's improvements were brakes to all 4 wheels, a 4 cylinder motor producing 40 horsepower and a three speed gear box allowing for a cruising speed of 40-45 MPH and top speed of about 65 MPH. It featured hydraulic shock absorbers and a gas tank that fed the carburetor by gravity, eliminating the need for a fuel pump. And with the gas tank behind the instrument panel, it was possible to check the fuel level by peering through a small port-hole.

A Tribeca Tradition

The Church Street School for Music and Art will host its annual weekend Gingerbread House Decorating Workshops beginning tomorrow December 3 and 4, and again on Dec 10 and 11, 17 and 18. To register, or request information, please call 212-571-7290 or click here. The Church Street School for Music and Art is located  at...

Toques for Tots

Starting this weekend, Asphalt Green will be hosting a three-part series of Saturday cooking class for kids, aged five to nine years old, in partnership with Butter Beans, a group that provides school lunches and food education programs at 15 independent schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. The Asphalt Green program will focus on the...

December 1

800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment...