Month: January 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Can Anybody Spare $100,000 Per Month? CB1 Discussion Tonight Will Review Skyrocketing Costs of Home Ownership in Battery Park City Tonight (Wednesday, January 6) the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will host a discussion about affordability for condominium owners, for whom the cost of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Adit Up Architects Propose to Reclaim Park Tribeca Lost Nearly a Century Ago Above: A view from above, illustrating the smaller parks (at street level) located at the corners of the Holland Tunnel Rotary, which would act as gateways to the Lower Plaza, submerged below the existing exit...

Eyes to the Sky January 4 – 17, 2021 Early nightfall and late sunup beckon to stargazers before days lengthen The last of the longest nights of the year are bookended by planet Venus taking final bows in early morning twilight in the southeast and planets Jupiter and Saturn poised at the edge of the...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News In Memoriam: Anthony Notaro (1951 – 2020) A Leader Who Presided Over Transformational Times in Lower Manhattan Passes from the Scene Anthony Notaro, shown here presiding over a meeting of Community Board 1, which he chaired from 2016 through 2020. Anthony Notaro, a Lower Manhattan community leader for...