Month: May 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Of Human Bondage Links and Shackles, As Symbols of Unity and Division “Song of the Broken Chains,” one of six pieces by renowned sculptor Melvin Edwards, now on display at City Hall Park. The Public Art Fund, a non-profit that presents contemporary pieces in New York public spaces,...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Inn and Out FiDi’s Moxy Hotel Seized by Lenders The Moxy NYC Downtown hotel, at 143 Fulton Street, which opened in 2018. The developers of the Moxy NYC Downtown, located at 143 Fulton Street, have surrendered possession of the property to their mortgage lenders, AllianceBernstein. In a story...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Pool Hopping EDC Moves Ahead with Plus Pool, But Elsewhere A newly released illustration of the site that the CIty’s Economic Development Corporation has apparently decided upon for +Pool, near Pier 35 in the Two Bridges neighborhood. The City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has followed the urging of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Street Wise City Council Measure Stands to Make FiDi Thoroughfare 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 forward,...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Note to the 22nd Century: PATH Used to Cost a Quarter Port Authority Buries Time Capsule at World Trade Center Above: The vessel is inserted into the ground. Below: The leadership of the Port Authority gathers around the commemorative marker at the location of the time capsule. As...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Slaughter Them All’ Onetime OWS Activist Convicted of Threatening Federal Officials Above: Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park 2011. Below: Former Occupy Wall Street protestor Brendan Hunt (also known as “X-Ray Ultra”): “Start up the firing squads, mow down these commies and letʼs take america back” A man...