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13 unusual facts about lower Manhattan


Apexart

apexart is a not-for-profit art space in Lower Manhattan.

Chapel Hill Bible Church

In the early 1830s, some members of the Oliver Street Baptist Church (now the Mariner's Temple) in Lower Manhattan split from that congregation.

Cortlandt Street

A street in Lower Manhattan, most of which became part of the World Trade Center in the 1970s

Eastern Sea Frontier

Eastern Sea Frontier's headquarters were located at 90 Church Street in Lower Manhattan.

Fort George, New York

The site is now a museum and courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

George Gustav Heye Center

That museum closed in 1994 and part of the collection is now housed at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan.

History of slavery in New York

In 1991, the remains of 400 Africans from the colonial era were uncovered during excavation for the Foley Square Courthouse in Lower Manhattan.

Lower Manhattan

As reflected in popular culture, "downtown" in Manhattan has historically represented a place where one could "forget all your troubles, forget all your cares, and go Downtown," as the lyrics of Petula Clark's 1964 hit "Downtown" celebrate.

The protagonist of Billy Joel's 1983 hit "Uptown Girl" contrasts himself (a "downtown man") with the purportedly staid uptown world.

Several of the city's leading jazz clubs are still located in Greenwich Village, which was also one of the primary bases of the American folk music revival of the 1960s.

Pearl Street Schoolhouse

The schoolhouse name is derived from the tendency of the Jansen family to speak often of Pearl Street in what is today Lower Manhattan.

Postmasters Gallery

On September 6, 2001, German-born artist Wolfgang Staehle, installed three live-feed video projections in the gallery, one of which was a panoramic view of Lower Manhattan, which would remain on view for the rest of the month.

Steve Tobin

In 2005, Tobin installed what is perhaps his best known work, Trinity Root, at St. Paul's Chapel in Lower Manhattan, New York City.


90 West Street

90 West Street (alternatively West Street Building) is a building in Lower Manhattan, New York City designed by architect Cass Gilbert and structural engineer Gunvald Aus for the West Street Improvement Corporation.

Collect Pond

The pond, fed by an underground spring, was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount (at 110 feet, the tallest hill in lower Manhattan) to the northeast and Kalck Hoek (Dutch for Chalk Point, named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by the indigenous Native American inhabitants) to the west.

DeeDee Halleck

Her first film, Children Make Movies (1961), was about a film-making project at Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlement in Lower Manhattan.

John Koten

The company is participating in the revival of lower Manhattan from its headquarters one block north of Ground Zero in New York’s first LEED-certified, “green” office building.

John P. Cahill

John P. Cahill was the Secretary and Chief of Staff to New York Governor George E. Pataki and Development Chief of Lower Manhattan.

Martin Connor

The 25th Senate District that he represented covers lower Manhattan and an area of Brooklyn down the East River from part of Greenpoint to Carroll Gardens, and eastward to part of Downtown Brooklyn.

Seedco

Following the September 11 attacks in Lower Manhattan, Seedco was asked by the Ford Foundation, the New York Times Foundation, and others to implement a disaster-recovery initiative for small businesses and their workers.

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The Second Circuit has its clerk's office and hears oral arguments at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at 40 Foley Square in Lower Manhattan.