Month: July 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty Department of Defense 4th of July flyover Photo: Karl Weintraub Lawn Gone Open Space Advocate Wants City Hall Park Returned to Community The Occupy City Hall encampment at Chambers and Centre Streets. A local advocate for Lower Manhattan open spaces...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Tourists are Returning Downtown photo Dorothy Lipsky  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty National Thoughts: Been There, Done That Theseus Aweighs Anchor on Troubled Waters WPA Photo Library of Congress We’re only halfway through 2020, but already, many of us have the sense that we will...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty Justice Belayed Appeals Court Considers Whether to Let Stand Decision About Two Bridges A recent hearing before the Appellate Division court of New York’s First Judicial Department indicates that the controversial plan to erect four massive new towers in the...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Greater Goods and Lessor Evils Gateway Affordability Protections Expire Today; Discussions Continue Rent stabilization at Gateway Plaza expires today (Tuesday, June 30). Despite more than two years of behind-the-scenes negotiations between the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and the LeFrak Organization (which operates the complex), no agreement has...