Date: Thursday, January 15
Moderator: Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent of the The New York Times; author
Panelists: Charles T. Gering, Director, New Netherland Project
Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History, Columbia University; editor, The Encyclopedia of New York City
Russel Shorto, Author
Topic: Why America Begins in New York: How the Dutch Distinguished the Nation's Greatest City
Location: Federal Hall National Memorial
At 26 Wall Street, this Greek Revival building designed by Ithiel Town and Alexander Davis stands on the site where George Washington was sworn in as the country’s first president in 1789.

Date: Thursday, February 19
Speaker: Daniel Libeskind, Architect
Topic: Counterpoint
Location: 7 World Trade Center, 45th Floor
At Vesey and Greenwich Streets, this is NYC's first certified "green" office tower.  Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the building is notable for its state-of-the-art glass technology providing reflectivity, light and spectacular views.

Date: Thursday, March 19
Speaker: Mike Wallace, Author; Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
Topic: Downtown New York in the Second World War
Location: Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
At 36 Battery Place, the museum's six-sided shape and tiered roof designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, is symbolic of the six points of the Star of David and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. 

Date: Thursday, April 16
Speaker: Alice Greenwald, Director National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Topic: Passion on all Sides: Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero
Location: St. Paul's Chapel
At Broadway and Vesey Street, this Georgian style building was built by Thomas McBean and completed in 1766. It is the city's only public building in continuous use that dates from the pre-Revolutionary period.

Date: Thursday, May 21
Speaker: Kate Johnson, Author; curator
Topic: The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: New York's 1909 River Festival and the Making of a Metropolis
Location: Down Town Association
At 60 Pine Street, this Charles Haight and Warren & Wetmore building, with its Romanesque Revival exterior and magnificent Edwardian interior, is the oldest private club in Lower Manhattan.

All information is subject to change.

Special thanks to the Down Town Association, Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Park Service, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Silverstein Properties, and Trinity Wall Street.