Year: 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Referendum Addendum One Month Later, Election Results Are Official (Sort Of…) Yuh-Line Niou Slightly more than a month after the contested primary for the Democratic Party nomination to represent Lower Manhattan in the State Assembly, something resembling a final result is available. On Wednesday, incumbent Yuh-Line Niou and...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Occupation Protestors Driven from City Hall Park Consider What They Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done The Occupy City Hall encampment, which was demolished by police on Wednesday. In the hours before dawn on Wednesday morning, NYPD officers in riot gear swept through the...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Weir and When Thursday Online Meeting Will Review Resiliency Plans for Northern Battery Park City One design concept under consideration for the Esplanade on Battery Park City’s northern edge would extend the walkway more than 20 feet into the water, creating space for new anti-flooding infrastructure, as well...

Jupiter and Saturn all night, Venus daybreak Astrophotographer Mihail Minkov’s Star Catcher placed first in the International Dark Sky Association’s “Connecting to the Dark” category of IDA’s first annual photography competition, “Capture the Dark”. Minkov accompanied the photograph with this statement: “I have a four-year-old daughter. She is fascinated by the planets, stars and the Milky Way....

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Quasi-Rent Stabilization Ends at Gateway Plaza Affordability Protections Replaced by Ten-Year Cap on Rent Increases The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) announced on Wednesday an agreement with the LeFrak Organization (operator of Gateway Plaza, the community’s largest residential complex) that will roll back affordability guarantees for the dwindling...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Special Cay Governors Island Reopens for Truncated Season, as Momentous Decisions Loom Governors Island Today (Wednesday, July 15), Governors Island will reopen for the summer season—a milestone originally scheduled for May 1, but delayed due to the pandemic coronavirus. The offerings at the park—which has come to be...