Month: April 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News An Outbreak of Affordability Soft Rental Market Puts Downtown Apartments within Reach of Voucher Guidelines, Almost One perverse boon arising from the pandemic coronavirus (and the economic slowdown that it triggered) is a slight—but significant—uptick in housing affordability in Lower Manhattan. A new study from the online real...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Depopulation of Downtown Analysis Documents Migration Out of Lower Manhattan During Pandemic An intriguing new data analysis from CBRE, the real estate services and investment firm, quantifies how many people left Lower Manhattan permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, “COVID-19 Impact on Migration Patterns,” uses change-of-address...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Postponed Park Premieres New FiDi Public Space Is Culmination of More Than a Decade of Advocacy and Planning Above: A schematic drawing of the new park, highlighting the various design concepts that have been incorporated into different “zones” of the space. Below: Elizabeth H. Berger A new green...

Eyes to the Sky April 19 – May 2, 2021 Wildly twinkling stars Astrophotographer’s statement “I threw Sirius out of focus and took this series of short exposures (1/25-second) with a 150mm telephoto lens on a Canon 5D Mark IV earlier this month [January, 2021]. The images are raw right out of the camera and...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Pooling of Interests Would a Swim Facility that Doubles as a Floating Filtration System be a Net Plus? A rendering of how +Pool would appear moored along the East River waterfront of Lower Manhattan. Community Board 1 (CB1) is continuing a decade of grassroots advocacy by prodding...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Piering Into the Future HRPT Moves Ahead with Plans to Recast Former Tow Pound as Waterfront Park Demolition and reconstruction work now underway will transform it into a public open space the size of three football fields. Lower Manhattan residents who use the Hudson River Greenway to traverse...