Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage An April Intervention The Hunter and the Hunted, Along with a Haunted Onlooker Isaiah Berlin famously observed that, “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” A Lower Manhattan resident thought of this on a Saturday afternoon in mid-April, when Downtown was locked […]
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Going to the Mattresses
Going to the Mattresses Lower Manhattan Hunkers Down, as Coronavirus Crisis Grinds On Multiple residents of Lower Manhattan have now tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, including one tenant at Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City, who has been hospitalized and is breathing with the assistance of a mechanical ventilator, according to a range sources […]
City Council Announces Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge
Higher, Wider, Handsomer City Council Announces Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge Some 15,000 pedestrians and 3,600 cyclists compete with each other and souvenir vendors for as little as ten feet of width on the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge creating an unpleasant (and potentially unsafe) bottleneck. The City Council has partnered […]
Counter Cyclical
Counter Cyclical Another Food Hall Coming to Lower Manhattan, Amid Signs That Community’s Appetite Is Diminishing The historic bank branch located at Broadway and Canal Street will soon be home to a new food hall. A new food hall is coming to a historic (and long neglected) Lower Manhattan building: the former First National City […]
City Environmental Review of New Ferry Service to Battery Park City Springs a Few Leaks
Boat Brawl City Environmental Review of New Ferry Service to Battery Park City Springs a Few Leaks The ferry terminal on the Esplanade (near Vesey Street) is slated this year to begin hosting an additional 60 vessels each day, carrying as many as 2,500 passengers, as the City inaugurates a new ferry service between Battery […]
Super-Tall Stalled
Super-Tall Stalled Plan for Lower Manhattan’s Highest Residential Tower Put on Hold The “super-tall” residential tower planned for 45 Broad Street (on which work recently halted) was slated to rise 80 stories, to a height of 1,115 feet. In what may be a harbinger of the decades-long Lower Manhattan real estate boom coming to an […]