Your
Free Guide to Lower Manhattan
examples of submissions:
Fountain
in City Hall Park submitted by Carolyn F. Strauss
The Jacob Wrey Mould Fountain was moved from City Hall Park to
Crotona Park in the Bronx in 1920.
see entry
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'Joe Doherty Corner' submitted by Connor McGrady
"This photograph is of 'Joe Doherty Corner', which is beside the
Federal Detention Center in Lower Manhattan. Joe Doherty was an Irish
Republican who was arrested and detained for over 9 years by the US government
in the 1980's and 90's. He had never committed any crime nor was charged
with having committed an offence in the US..."
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The Lenape submitted by annonymous
The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans)
were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people
practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer
society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River,
and western Long Island Sound.
see
entry
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Castle Clinton
Castle Clinton and the history of the first settlements Fort Clinton was
originally built on an island about 200 feet from the shoreline.
see
entry
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Broadway, as the name implies, is a big, wide avenue in New York City,
New York, and is one of the main north-south thoroughfares in the city.
see
entry
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At the top floor of the Woolworth Building was a dentist office-- to be
reached by elevator and then up a small stairwell.
see
entry
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Municipal Building submission by Andrea Geyer
March 2004
Two months ago, I looked out the window at the sculpture on top of the
Municipal Building. I picked up a book to find the name of the sculpture:
Civic Fame. I research the sculpture and stumble over the story of the
woman who posed for it. 1913. Her name is Audrey Munson. ... After a while,
I start to recognize her face in stone around town. She suddenly seems
everywhere even though her name is hardly remembered: The Pulizer Fountain
in front of the Plaza Hotel, the entry to the Manhattan bridge, the entry
to Central Park at Columbus Circle, the relief above the Frick Collection
entrance, at Madison Square Garden, in a park on the Upper West Side….
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On July 28th, 2004 New York City Fire Department protests in front of
City Hall demanding pay rises.
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there used to be a store, right after september 11, 2001, which had the
most unbelievable window display. it was selling gas masks, and chemical
suits, and anti-radiation pills, and oxygen tents for your pets, and of
course duct tape, and it was on the corner of ann street right near j&r
if i am not mistaken.