Month: July 2017

Lower Manhattan has a lot of artists, but they are leaving in greater numbers than in almost any community of New York City, according to a new report from the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a public policy think tank based Downtown. The report, “A Creative Solution to New York’s Affordable Space Crunch,” notes...

Earlier this year, the de Blasio administration said to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), in effect, “wanna buy a bridge?” They were referring to the Morris Street pedestrian overpass, a forlorn span that links Washington and Greenwich Street, by reaching across the entrance plaza to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The MTA’s offering price, nothing, might seem...

A Battery Park City resident was struck and injured by a Parks vehicle driving on the sidewalk on the morning of July 13, and had to wait for nearly 30 minutes before ambulances and police could find the location she called into 911. Dominique Galluzzi was walking east along Albany Street on her way to...

Rising high school freshman Jack Greenleaf has been making good use of his summer break. On July 1, he started Bread and Monkey, a banana bread company servicing Battery Park City. On his first day of business, Mr. Greenleaf says that he spent the day baking and publishing his website (with the help of his...

A tireless defender of the Battery Park City community is stepping away from the ramparts. Ninfa Segarra, who has served for 18 months as the chair of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), has resigned as a result of what she describes as, “the need to focus on personal priorities.” At...

Almost a year ago, on September 6, 2016, the barque Peking pushed off from South Street Seaport for one last time to begin her final trip home to the land of her birth, Hamburg Germany. Eased out into the slack tide of the East River and assisted by a few tugs and many well wishers,...