To the editor: Is the West Thames Street Bridge a typically managed public project in New York City? Publicity and public meetings are concerning. Questions begin to arise. Why does such a project cost so much? Who benefits? It doesn’t seem to be the taxpayers. How does a $20 million contract become a $40 million […]
Archives for September 2018
How to Help People Who Struggle with a Mortgage, Instead of Rent
Community Board 1 (CB1) is advocating to protect a constituency that is often overlooked in discussions about affordable housing: residents who own their apartments, rather than renting them. A resolution passed at CB1’s July meeting calls upon the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to create protections for homeowners in Lower Manhattan, as part of […]
Quantifying the Community
City Comptroller Scott Stringer has issued his annual Neighborhood Economic Profiles report, which provides a financial and demographic snapshot of each community throughout the five boroughs of New York City, and yields some interesting insights about Lower Manhattan. For the purposes of this report, Downtown is defined as Manhattan, south of 14th Street, west of […]
Who’s Eco-Friendliest?
Three State legislators who represent Downtown in Albany have been given high marks by the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV), the only statewide environmental organization in New York that campaigns for clean water, clean air, renewable energy and open space through political action. In its annual State Environmental Scorecard, the NYLCV evaluated every […]
Does It Feel Like ‘Logan’s Run’ Around Here?
Lower Manhattan is emerging as a mecca for millennials (defined here as people born between 1977 and 1996), according to a new report prepared by RENTCafe, a nationwide apartment search website. The study, produced by Nadia Balint, a senior writer and researcher at RENTCafe, finds that urban cores across the nation are magnets for this […]
The Choice
“I have told my family that I’ve decided to survive this,” says Theseus Roche, the grieving father who lost his 15-year-old daughter, Imogen, when she died on September 2, in an accidental fall from a fifth-floor fire escape at the Tribeca apartment where she was attending a party. She will be honored and remembered tomorrow […]