Author: Matthew Fenton

Local Leaders Slam Decision to Move Ahead with Mostly Market-Rate Housing at World Trade Center Site A phalanx of Lower Manhattan elected officials and community leaders are condemning the announcement by the administration of Governor Kathy Hochul that residential development at Five World Trade Center (5WTC) will move ahead with only a slight increase to...

Faith and Food, Ganymede and Glaucus Inspire Pedagogic Perambulations The Downtown Alliance has designated the winners in its Walking Tour Incubator Grant Program. Each finalist will receive up to $12,500 to develop new walking tours in Lower Manhattan. The winners are the South Street Seaport Museum, which will escort guests on a journey around the...

Art with a Light Touch Presented at the Waterfront This Week Now through Saturday, the Battery Park City Authority is partnering with Illuminations.NYC, a non-profit organization that produces free, light-inspired art installations, to present a Spring Showcase on Belvedere Plaza (the elevated plaza between North Cove Marina and the World Financial Center ferry terminal). Billed...

Garage Partially Vacated by Buildings Inspectors, Citing Structural Concerns In the wake of the collapse of a Lower Manhattan parking garage in the Financial District on the evening of April 18, the City’s Department of Buildings (DOB) has identified structural problems at a similar facility, located in the back of the 225 Rector Place condominium...

CB1 Wants Outdoor Dining Spaces Scaled Back Community Board 1 (CB1) is getting behind a push to scale back the number of outdoor dining sheds on Lower Manhattan streets and sidewalks, led by the Coalition United for Equitable Urban Policy (CUEUP). The group describes itself as “an alliance of neighborhood and block associations, organizations, institutions,...

Hard Times for Higher Education in Lower Manhattan A college based in Lower Manhattan is in danger of losing its academic accreditation, making it the latest in series of local institutions facing similar headwinds. Alliance University (known as Nyack College until rebranding last year) has been based at Two Washington Street (near Battery Place) since...