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Savvy Downtowners Critique Redesign of Lower Manhattan Artery

Lower Manhattan Forecast: It’s Getting Cloudier

The Downtown Alliance has finished rolling out the newest phase of its ongoing effort to blanket Lower Manhattan in free wireless connectivity. The Alliance announced on Monday that it had added more than 800,000 additional square feet, completed a half-mile plus corridor along Broadway (between Barclay Street and the Battery) and unified its previously separate...
The area blanketed by the Downtown Alliance's free wireless network has grown to include an uninterrupted corridor of coverage on Broadway, between Barclay Street and the Battery, along with similar corridors along Water, South, and Front streets, as well as more than a dozen plazas and parks.

Rowing the Atlantic

Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage. Day 41, Friday 24th June. I got dressed to go out and set the SA after supper last night when the rain eased, the fog...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.

June 24

451 – 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet 843 – Vikings destroy Nantes 1441 – Eton College founded by Henry VI 1497 – John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England, believed he found Asia in Nova Scotia 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded 1778 – David Rittenhouse observes (and many others,...
Territorial enlargement of the United States, the Gadsden Purchase shown in red-orange

Festivals, Fairs, Fitness, and Fun in Lower Manhattan

A trio of free events will keep Lower Manhattan residents slimmed, slaked, sated, and even seated this weekend. Tonight, the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy will host (in partnership with the Consulate General of Sweden), the annual Swedish Midsummer Festival in Wagner Park and on the Pier A Plaza, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. Guests...

June 23

930 – World’s oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established 1683 – William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians. Some historians place the date of the treaty today in 1683, when Penn purchased two tracts of land from Tamanend and his associates. It is believed that transaction and the “Great Treaty” took place at the same time. West’s painting has a...
William Penn's words, "We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good-will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. We are the same as if one man's body was to be divided into two parts; we are of one flesh and one blood." The reply of Tamanend, is equally noble: "We will live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure."

Rowing The Atlantic

Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen. Here’s his facebook link to track his voyage.  Day 39, Wednesday 22nd June.Bright moon all night, clean sunrise again and 2 hrs later still cloudless. But it did not take long yesterday to change...
Dr. Stein Hoff began his row across the Atlantic on Sunday morning May 15th, 120 years after George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen.