CREATING THE IRISH HUNGER MEMORIAL, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan.
Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.
Mr. Petritsch had pledged to do something in July, on the fifth anniversary of the massacre, when hundreds of women who survived returned to Srebrenica for a memorial ceremony at the battery factory.
Sunday at 2 p.m., "Battery Park City to the Battery," a tour of memorials in Lower Manhattan, meeting on the southwest corner of West and Vesey Streets.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m., "The Art of Remembering: From Battery Park City to the Battery," a tour of some of the memorials in Lower Manhattan, including the Irish Hunger Memorial, the Columbus Monument and the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, meeting at the Maine Monument on the north side of 59th Street, south of Central Park West.
If the 9/11 Memorial is included, shouldn't Battery Park City in general be represented, and if Battery Park City, why not the World Financial Center, or one of its components, or even the new W Hotel?
Christmas Day MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE, A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST, 36 Battery Place, Lower Manhattan.
The price of hubris ReprintsIn New York, the Hudson and East River breached their banks, flooding Manhattan streets and the Ground Zero memorial, and filling the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, which connects Manhattan to 2.5m people in Brooklyn, with 43m gallons of water.
Music, storytelling and folk dancing, with live performances, on Sunday at 2 30 p.m. at the the Museum of Jewish Heritage AA Living Memorial to the Holocaust, southern tip of Battery Park City, across Battery Place from the Ritz-Carlton New York, Lower Manhattan.
The preserved war site of the 35th Battery fort is a powerful memorial to Soviet soldiers killed while defending Sevastopol against the Nazis in World War Two.
And the Lower West Side of Manhattan, between Battery Park and the 9/11 Memorial, is indeed an important part of New York City.
