Archives for March 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Getting Squeezed Coming and Going Washington Okays Congestion Pricing Program that Local Leaders Fear will Penalize Lower Manhattan Residents Mitch Frohman: “So this is going to be great for rich people, who can afford to pay for convenience, to have less traffic. It will be better for them, […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Banks Heist Local Leaders Get Irredentist to Reclaim Park Space Dispossessed for a Decade The park known as Brooklyn Bridge Banks has been closed to the public for more than a decade, to facilitate maintenance work on the span above. Community Board 1 (CB1) wants the administration of […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Compulsory Commemoration Governor Opens Hurricane Maria Memorial The design of the newly opened Hurricane Maria Memorial (located at the Chambers Street overlook, on River Terrace) features an ascending glass spiral, meant to evoke both a hurricane and a nautilus shell—symbolic of protection against a hostile environment. On Friday, […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Pearl of Wisdom Brewer Pushes for FiDi Thoroughfare to Be Made Pedestrian-Friendly in Perpetuity Above: This map illustrates the quarter-mile length of Pearl Street, in the Financial District, which has been converted to limited vehicular access under the Open Streets program. Below: Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer: “Going […]

One Act of Kindness Matt Keating is a singer/songwriter who lives in Lower Manhattan with his wife Emily. In a recent post on Facebook, he described his friendship with a man who took shelter outside his building, and how he helped this man receive his federal stimulus check. March 20 This is my neighbor Jamal. […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Chopper Stoppers Proposed Federal Law Would Further Restrict Helicopter Flights Over New York City Congressman Jerry Nadler and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer stand at the Wall Street heliport to announce new federal legislation aimed at banning non-essential helicopter flights from New York skies. For the second time […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Anti-Inundation Ideation Residents Are Invited to Brainstorm about Bulwark for the Battery Plans slated for discussion during an online, public meeting tonight will seek to protect the Battery — the 25-acre historic park at Lower Manhattan’s southern tip that straddles the junction between the Hudson and East Rivers. […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Life of the Party Sheriffs Break Up Illegal Nightclub in Tribeca A sheriff’s patrol vehicle blocking the entrance to One Harrison Street, in Tribeca, on Friday evening. On Friday, for the second time in three weeks, a task force of New York City sheriffs shut down an illegal […]

Eyes to the Sky March 22 – April 4, 2021 Turn-of-the-season dazzle: brightest stars, vivid constellations, and rusty-gold Mars The calendar in the night sky marks Spring Equinox evenings with the rising of golden Arcturus, the second brightest star in our sky. Sunset is at 7:11 this evening and about a minute later each day […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘I Am Never Going to Accept that This Is Okay’ Niou Describes Personal Response to Wave of Anti-Asian Violence New York State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou: “I’m so tired of begging for people to see us as human beings.” At a rally held in Lower Manhattan on Saturday, […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Where to Play in a Pandemic New Hub for Families in Tribeca Offers Music, Dance, Parkour, and More The 18,000-square-foot Tribeca facility (spread across two levels) includes spaces dedicated to work, play, and learning. Tribeca has a new place for kids to play, parents to work, and families […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Park Preservation Push Resiliency Plans Clash with Public Space Concerns A rendering of a control house, this one situated on the Lower East Side, similar to the structures planned for the southern portion of Battery Park City. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), as part of its ongoing […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Tenets for Tenants GPTA to Host Annual Meeting for Residents Tomorrow Night Tomorrow (Thursday, March 18) the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association (GPTA) will host its annual meeting, which will include updates by the organization’s board, the election of board members, as well as a question-and-answer session. Also on […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Debt and Taxes Mayoral Contender Has Ideas for How to Spend Battery Park City Money Above: Baruch Houses is a NYCHA public housing development on the Lower East Side. Below: Mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer: “I would implement as mayor my idea to move $40 million a year in Battery […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Unkindest Cut of All CB1 Seeks to Make Sense of Inconsistent Sidewalk-Street Connections This curb cut on Chambers Street, near the entrance to Stuyvesant High School, is a legal parking space under City regulations issued in 2009. Despite this, the NYPD wrote more than $19,000 in tickets […]

View as Webpage Urban flora: Spring peepers pepper Peck Slip. Lower Manhattan’s Local News Downtown Jabs Left Lower Manhattan in Line with Borough, Ahead of City in Rates of COVID Vaccination Lower Manhattan residents are being vaccinated against the pandemic coronavirus at a rapid rate. Lower Manhattan’s local vaccination rate is roughly in line with […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Quid Pro No? Another FiDi Renter Seeks Recompense for Years of Rent Overcharges A map, compiled by New York University’s Furman Center (which advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy) illustrating the dozens of Lower Manhattan buildings—erstwhile office towers, converted to residential use—that have benefited from […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News They Listened City and Seaport Developer Revamp Pavilion Plans, In Response to Community Input A rendering of the proposed outdoor dining pavilion planned for South and Fulton Streets, in front of the historic Tin Building. (The shaded area above indicates the obstructed view created by the FDR Drive […]

A Decade of Development Lower Manhattan Quietly Becomes Home to Equivalent of a New Neighborhood – Almost None of It Affordable A map from the Department of City Planning quantifies where the most (and fewest) new apartments have been built in Lower Manhattan, between 2010 and 2020, when more than 6,400 dwellings were created. In […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News They Plan to Unpave the Parking Lot, and Put Up a Paradise The East Side Competes with the Hudson as Downtown’s Go-To Waterfront Destination Above: A rendering of the children’s playground planned for Pier 42 by the landscape architecture firm of Mathews Nielsen, which also contributed to the designs […]