Discovery. Comet Swift-Tuttle was discovered in 1862 independently by both Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. Overview. Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle takes 133 years to orbit the Sun once.

Downtown Alliance, Trinity Church, and Bowery Residents’ Committee Shepherd Local Unsheltered Persons into Housing. A partnership between the Downtown Alliance, Trinity Church, and the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) has succeeded in moving 130 unsheltered people off Lower Manhattan streets in the first ten months of this year.

City Plan to Lease Office Space Without Competitive Bidding is Paused. After Community Board 1 (CB1) raised ethical concerns about a City plan to lease 80,000 square feet of office space in the Financial District for a municipal agency, the Adams administration has delayed the project.

2024年10月10日 · Private School Falls More Than Eight Million Behind on Rent in FiDi. The future of an elite Lower Manhattan private school is under a cloud, after falling behind on millions of dollars in rent for more than a year, which has had the collateral effect of putting the building’s mortgage on a watchlist for loans that may wipe out investors who bought securities based on …

2024年11月20日 · Single Mom Scammed by Ticket Hawkers Highlights Pattern of Persistent Crime Downtown. The recent case of a single mother with two small children, who was conned by swindlers selling bogus tickets to the Statue of Liberty at Battery Park, illustrates an ongoing case of lawlessness in Lower Manhattan.

Blasting Through Solid Rock to Safeguard New York’s Reputation for the Best Pizza and Bagels. Hundreds of feet below the bottom of the Hudson River, at a spot a half day’s sail north from the Battery Park City esplanade, sandhogs (as workers who excavate tunnels are known) are busy blasting and boring a new tunnel to keep the finest fresh water in …

2025年1月7日 · Eleventh-Hour Deal Scuttles Federal Funding for WTC Health Program. A last-minute change to the federal spending bill that kept the government from shutting down in late December dropped proposed funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (which serves people made sick by toxic debris from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001) that had previously been agreed upon by a bi-partisan ...

2024年9月29日 · Law Passes to Create Trail of Historical Markers Related to Slavery. On September 12, the City Council unanimously voted to ratify the Road to Freedom Act, a bill sponsored by member Christopher Marte that will impanel a 13-member task force of government officials and academic experts to plan an urban historical trail in Lower Manhattan (and beyond) to raise awareness about the role New York ...

New Park Planned, a Decade After Developer’s Unfulfilled Promises. A new nonprofit organization is aiming to revivify a forlorn vest-pocket park in at the convergence of Church Street, Sixth Avenue, and White Street.

2025年1月28日 · Lower Manhattan Newspaper. Brewer Pushes Investigation into Secret City Hall Documents About September 11