Author: Matthew Fenton

Albany Allocates $20 Million to Revitalize Downtown’s Asian Ethnoburb Governor Kathy Hochul is allocating $20 million to help revitalize Chinatown in the wake of the Covid pandemic, as part of the State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Noting that Lower Manhattan’s Asian enclave is home to the largest Chinese population in an urban area outside of China,...

Local College Honors Professor Whose Patchworks Were Masterworks Tribeca’s Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) kicked off its observance of Black History Month on Wednesday by honoring the late Professor Edward M. Bostick (right), who taught English and linguistics at the school for almost half a century, before retiring in 2020 and passing away last...

Hudson River Vistas May Be Eclipsed by Planned Flood Barriers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning resiliency measures for the West Side of Lower Manhattan that will rely primarily on a 12-foot-high seawall running along Hudson River Park, wedged between the bikeway and the pedestrian promenade. The preliminary plan calls for the structure...

City Hall Gets Behind Push to Reopen Park Beneath Brooklyn Bridge In a plan released as part of his January 26 State of the City address, Mayor Eric Adams is committing to “unlocking two spaces under the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan for public use with a working group to evaluate medium- and long-term concepts for...

City Will Spend $90,000-Plus Per Day for 15 Months to Rent Bankrupt Hotel in FiDi for Migrants The administration of Mayor Eric Adams plans to rent a bankrupt Holiday Inn hotel in the Financial District at a cost of more than $34 million per year, and operate it as a shelter for illegal immigrants who have...

What To Do with Erstwhile Heroes Who Now Look Like Villains?      On Friday, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by calling for the removal from Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes two sidewalk plaques that honor French government officials who later collaborated with Nazi Germany.      One recalls the October...