City Hall sets record straight on 200th anniversary.Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller Alan Gifford Miller (born November 6, 1969) is the former Speaker of the New York City Council, where he represented Council District 5. Barred from seeking reelection due to term limits, the Democrat ran in the Democratic primary for the opportunity to run against incumbent and Public Advocate Public Advocate is a governmental position similar to an ombudsman. Depending on the jurisdiction it could be an elected or an appointed position. Betsy Gotbaum Betsy Gotbaum is the New York Public Advocate. A longtime civic leader, this is her first elective office. She is a Democrat. Gotbaum, a trained teacher, became involved in civic affairs in the 1970s, while serving on the staff of former Mayor John Lindsay. celebrated the 200th anniversary of the construction of City Hall during a ceremony on Nov 14. The three unveiled a bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. paver on the southeast side of the plaza that was carved especially to commemorate the anniversary and to correct a historical inaccuracy in·ac·cu·ra·cy n. pl. in·ac·cu·ra·cies 1. The quality or condition of being inaccurate. 2. An instance of being inaccurate; an error. on the foundation stone by crediting Joseph Francois Mangin along with John McComb, Jr. as the architects of City Hall, which was constructed from 1803 to 1812. Researchers, led by the City's Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Art Commission, pored over period newspapers, the diary of John McComb, Jr., one of City Hall's architects, and the minutes of the Common Council, to check historical details of the building. They found that, in 1802, a competition was held for the new City Hall and 26 proposals were submitted. The first prize of $350 was awarded to John McComb, Jr. and Joseph Francois Mangin. McComb was a New Yorker yorker Noun Cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat [probably after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club] while Joseph Francois Mangin was trained in his native France. City Hall is the only known project on which the two architects collaborated. The researchers, however, found that a foundation stone had been laid at the southeast corner of the City Hall building during a ceremony on May 26, 1803 and that John McComb, Jr. had received sole credit as the architect of the building on the actual foundation stone itself, as well as in most of the news coverage. In order to correct this historical error, one of the bluestone pavers in City Hall Plaza was [TEXT INCOMPLETE IN ORIGINAL SOURCE.] |
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