Today’s Calendar Friday July 19
FRIDAY 8AM Tai Chi Battery Park City Authority Build muscle and strength, improve flexibility and balance, and increase aerobic conditioning. Tai Chi results in strength and focus of body and mind. Esplanade Plaza. http://bpcparks.org/events/2019-07/ 12NOON Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, architect Cass Gilbert, viewing the Collectors office; Tiffany woodwork; Reginald Marsh murals; and the 140 ton rotunda dome by Raphael Gustavino. One Bowling Green. https://americanindian.si.edu/calendar 1PM Pipes at One St. Paul’s Chapel Pipes at One concerts feature the celebrated three-manual Noack organ that was inaugurated in the spring of 2018. Today, listen to Avi Stein, Associate Organist, Trinity Church Wall Street. 6:30PM Iration-Live From Paradise! With Pepper, Fortunate Youth and Kastrato Rooftop at Pier 17 Reggae concer 6:30PM Battery Park City Authority Rhythm and grooves fill the air at this Friday evening program. Follow the lead of professional drummers as they guide you through the pulsating beats of traditional African drumming techniques and methods. Wagner Park. |
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The Tale of the Ticker Tape, or How Adversity and Spontaneity Hatched a New York Tradition What was Planned as a Grand Affair became a Comedy of Errors
While the festivities in New York Harbor didn’t go as scripted that afternoon, the spontaneous gesture it generated from the brokerage houses lining Broadway famously lives on more than a century later. On October 28, 1886, Liberty Enlightening the World was to be unveiled to New York City and the world as it stood atop its tall base on Bedloe’s Island. But the morning mist had turned to afternoon fog, blurring the view of the statue from revelers on the Manhattan shore and the long parade of three hundred ships on the Hudson River. John Simko |
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