The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey formally approved an agreement with the developer Larry A. Silverstein for financing of the project.
Fri 27 Aug 2010
Filed under: September 11 (2001), Office Buildings and Commercial Properties, Monuments and Memorials, World Trade Center (NYC), Manhattan (NYC) — @ 7:00 am
Mon 5 Jul 2010
On Elizabeth’s third trip to New York, she will address the United Nations and formally open the British Garden in Lower Manhattan.
Tue 1 Jun 2010
The New York region celebrated a solemn and sun-drenched Memorial Day, with salutes, parades and visits to parks and beaches.
Tue 1 Jun 2010
Filed under: Snyder, Cal, Clark, Wesley K, Reid, Richard C, Riverside Park, Young, William G, Monuments and Memorials, Memorial Day, Al Qaeda, Terrorism — @ 2:28 am
What might the fallen fighters we honor have felt about proposals to treat terrorists not as vile criminals but as “enemy combatants”?
Sat 22 May 2010
Filed under: Douglass, Frederick, Sculpture, Central Park (NYC), Monuments and Memorials — @ 3:13 am
Building a traffic circle and memorial plaza for Frederick Douglass at a corner of Central Park is taking longer than the Civil War.
Fri 21 May 2010
A suggestion that Richard Blumenthal visit a site honoring those who really did fight in the war.
Thu 6 May 2010
Filed under: Battery Park City (NYC), Travel and Vacations, Monuments and Memorials, Art, Parks and Other Recreation Areas — @ 10:10 pm
With gardens and nearby museums, Battery Park deserves to be seen as a destination, not just a launching pad to go elsewhere.
Sat 17 Apr 2010
Thurman Munson Way, better known to residents of the South Bronx as 156th Street.Thurman Munson, a Yankees catcher who died at 32 in 1979, is memorialized by a narrow road in the Bronx between a rail-yard bed and a housing complex. To many, it hardly seems a fitting tribute.
Thu 25 Feb 2010
Filed under: Slavery, African Burial Ground (NYC), African Burial Ground Visitor Center, Monuments and Memorials, Blacks, Historic Buildings and Sites, Art, Cemeteries, Manhattan (NYC) — @ 11:31 pm
The African Burial Ground Visitor Center offers the first large-scale traces of black American experience in the New York region.
Sat 13 Feb 2010
Filed under: Lincoln National Corp, Lincoln National Corp|LNC|NYSE, Lincoln, Abraham, Monuments and Memorials, New York City — @ 2:07 am
The 16th president still has a tunnel and performing arts center in New York, but his name has been stripped from a building near Grand Central Terminal.