Author: Matthew Fenton

Downtown’s Thoroughfare to Nowhere Might Soon Go Somewhere City Council member Christopher Marte is leading a coalition of several dozen Lower Manhattan organizations that want to reopen Park Row, which has been closed to civilian vehicles since September 11, 2001, and reopened only for pedestrian and cyclists in 2018. For decades, the artery that once...

Push for Task Force to Incubate Consensus on West Side Resiliency Community Board 1 (CB1) is advocating for the creation of a multi-agency West Side Task Force that will enable an integrated, holistic view of resiliency measures along the Hudson River waterfront. This proposal aims to address the conflicts and contradictions that can emerge when...

Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Office-to-Residential Transformation in FiDi A suit filed in State Supreme Court aims to derail plans to convert the office tower known as the New York Technology Center, at 55 Broad Street (corner of Beaver Street), into apartments. In a story first reported by the property industry newsletter, The Real Deal, one...

Governors Island Trust Announces City’s First Public Hybrid-Electric Ferry; Invites Public to Name It The Trust for Governors Island and the administration of Mayor Eric Adams have announced plans to bring the City’s first hybrid-electric ferry into service next year. The new vessel, now under construction in Louisiana, will accommodate up to 1,200 passengers and...

Downtown Sisters Singled Out by Global Search for Academic Talent A pair of sisters who live in Battery Park City and attend PS/IS 276 have been identified as among the brightest students in the world by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY), a gifted-education program for school-age children, which is affiliated with...

New Affordability Protections Enacted Last Year for Lower Manhattan Residents Not Yet Available The process of delivering a package of affordability to benefits to Lower Manhattan residents who have long been excluded from them is inching forward. In 2022, State Senator Brian Kavanagh led the successful push for legislation to extend four protections that have...