Remembrance of Things Lost
A Community that Cannot Forget Comes Together to Recollect
The Grand Dame of New York Harbor Is Coming Back to Lower Manhattan
Of late, the South Street Seaport Museum has felt like a parent suffering through empty-nest syndrome, or at least “empty-dock syndrome.” During the summer, one of its children, the four-masted sailing vessel Peking, left for good, on its way to a new home in Hamburg’s German Port Museum. The other beloved child, the full-rigged ship...
Today in History
1763- In Campo Maior, Portugal, at 3 am, a storm hits the Armory, located on the Castle’s main tower, which contains 6000 arrobas (a Portuguese and Spanish unit of mass) of gunpowder and 5000 pieces of ammunition. An explosion ensues, followed by fire, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants. 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores,...
This Weekend's 15th Annual Battery Park City Block Party May Be the Last
This year’s Battery Park City Block Party (slated for Sunday, September 18, on the Esplanade Plaza, overlooking North Cove Marina) might be the last, as the community leaders who founded the event prepare to hand responsibility to successors who have yet to come forward, or else let the celebration become part of the community’s history....
This Weekend’s 15th Annual Battery Park City Block Party May Be the Last
This year’s Battery Park City Block Party (slated for Sunday, September 18, on the Esplanade Plaza, overlooking North Cove Marina) might be the last, as the community leaders who founded the event prepare to hand responsibility to successors who have yet to come forward, or else let the celebration become part of the community’s history....
On This Day, At This Place: September 16, 1920
On September 11, thousands gathered at Ground Zero to honor those killed fifteen years earlier when commercial airliners were repurposed into deadly missiles, striking a blow at an iconic symbol of capitalism by targeting prominent buildings in New York’s Financial District. On September 16, tens of thousands walk down Wall Street unaware that nearly a...
Today in History
1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, suspected to have killed hundreds of children, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes. Sentenced to execution by hanging and burning, the French serial killers died on October 26 of that year....
