U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler standing with Rabbi Joseph Potasnick, Executive Vice President, New York Board of Rabbis, who received the Gershom Mendes Seixas Religious Freedom Award on Friday, April 8, 2022. Ambrose Madison Richardson (fourth from left), President of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, presented the award. Photo: Wellington Chen, LMHA Board of Directors Commemorating Religious Freedom The Lower Manhattan Historical Association held its Second Annual Ceremony honoring the 292th anniversary of the Consecration... News 10 Apr 2022 | 07:28
Professor Malcolm Bowman (left), NY NJ Storm Surge Working Group chair, introduces Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. Photo: Victoria Bonilla Baez A Superstorm Sandy Boat Tour On October 28, the New York New Jersey Storm Surge Working Group (SSWG) hosted the Superstorm Sandy Ninth Anniversary Coastal... News 29 Oct 2021 | 12:42
The September 11 Commemoration Ceremony in 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Forever Epicenter History constantly recalibrates our threshold of the unfathomable. What we thought was unbearable turns out to have been... Home 08 Sep 2021 | 01:45
The 9/11 memorial. Photo: Jörg Schubert, via Flickr. 9/11: Burned in My Brain I had been looking forward to Sept. 11, 2001, for weeks. It was going to be a red-letter day. Bob Dylan’s newest album, Love... Home 30 Aug 2021 | 01:01
Memorial Lights, Sept. 11, 2020. Photo: Florin C, via Flickr Downtown: 20 Years After 9/11 Two decades ago, our world changed on Tuesday, September 11th with the largest terrorist attack on American soil at the heart... News 30 Aug 2021 | 08:44
Jenny Low. Photo courtesy of Low’s campaign Jenny Low: ‘I Get It Done’ Jenny Low immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 12 years old, learning English while attending school.... News 28 May 2021 | 09:37
Ciao Bow Wow’s airy space in the Financial District. ( Photo: Ciao Bow Wow ) Pets Best Dog Run EAST RIVER ESPLANADE DOG RUN East 63rd Street at the East River This Upper East Side dog run in Andrew Haswell... Best of Manhattan 03 Dec 2019 | 02:30
Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer with mural artists ( Photos courtesy of the Office of Gale A. Brewer) The Art of Resiliency Last Thursday Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer unveiled the winning murals - and the artists who created them -... News 27 Sep 2019 | 02:41
Tens of thousands packed Foley Square before a march to Battery Park Friday as park of the Climate Strike NYC, a movement led by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. ( Photo: Emily Higginbotham) 'We Will Make Them Hear Us' Thousands of young people flooded the streets of Lower Manhattan Friday afternoon, chanting and waving protest signs, all... News 23 Sep 2019 | 12:28