Month: April 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News History Updated City Preservation Agency Okays Plan for New Structure on East River Waterfront 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...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Nadler Proposes to Expand Historic African Cemetery with Museum and Education Center The African Burial Ground National Monument Congressman Jerry Nadler is sponsoring to expand the African Burial Ground National Monument, the Lower Manhattan site that holds the remains of an estimated 15,000 African-Americans...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Expurgation Exasperation East River Park Advocates Demand to See Resiliency Planning Documents A rendering of the City’s plan for a resilient East River Park, rebuilt behind a seawall and elevated above nine feet of fill. A coalition of activists based on the Lower East Side has filed suit...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Hoping to Avert a ‘Death Spiral’ Local Leaders Seek Temporary Easing of Federal Mortgage Regulations on Condominiums and Cooperatives Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling upon elected officials to intercede on behalf of condominiums and cooperatives, where the economic downtown triggered by the pandemic coronavirus has resulted in...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News OPINION AND ANALYSIS The New Roaring Twenties New York City Won’t Be The Same, But It Will Be Great A chorus of New York naysayers are telling us that the City will never be the same after this pandemic. They are right—but not in the way they think....

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘How Is One to Speak of Such Things and Not Lose One’s Mind?’ Museum of Jewish Heritage Commemorates Losses Among Community of Survivors The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located within Wagner Park, in Battery Park City, is memorializing the loss of Holocaust survivors who perished during the pandemic....