View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Trolley Lolly BPCA Funds Connection Shuttle for Two More Years The Downtown Connection shuttle, which ferries passengers free of charge between more than 30 local stops that link residential areas with business and shopping districts, is operated by the Downtown Alliance, in partnership with the Battery Park City […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Everything Old Is New Again Lower Manhattan’s First House of Worship Gets a Facelift Above: A rendering of the new stained-glass window planned for Trinity Church. Below: The existing window, which is a modern replacement of a now-vanished historic original, has fallen into serious disrepair. The ongoing evolution […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Charity Begins at Home Downtown Alliance Funds Lower Manhattan Non-Profits Alliance president Jessica Lappin: “No economic recovery will be truly successful without finding a way to support the cultural growth we’ve witnessed take hold in our neighborhood over the past several years.” The Downtown Alliance is donating $10,000 […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Different Kind of Test Scores COVID Report Card for Lower Manhattan Schools Above: The Peck Slip School, where three students have tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus Below: P.S./I.S. 276, where an three teachers are reported to be infected A review of data from the New York […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Not-So-Okay Corral DOT Overrules Community Concerns about Delivery Bike Facility in Tribeca The new cargo-bike corral on Warren Street, intended for use by Whole Foods in making local deliveries. The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has ignored calls from Community Board 1 (CB1) to address concerns of […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Life and Death in the Estuary Outside Our Windows Dead menhaden in North Cove. Over the past few days, downtowners have witnessed extremes of life and death in the Hudson River—a humpback whale exploring the waterway, flipping its tail as if to wave at the Statue of Liberty; […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Liberal in the Streets, NIMBY in the Sheets’ Margaret Chin Pushes Back Against Racially Charged Pasquinade Above: The “Chinzilla” poster that critics of City Council member Margaret Chin created to express their criticism of her record. Below: Margaret Chin: “To who seek to poison the well with misinformation […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Affordable Housing is Unaffordable’ Stringer On New Yorkers Being Priced Out of Their Communities City Comptroller and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer New York City Comptroller, mayoral contender, and Lower Manhattan resident Scott Stringer took part in a candidates’ forum last Saturday, as part of the annual West Side […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Jenny from the Block Veteran Local Activist Seeks City Council Seat Jenny Low, whose record of community leadership in Lower Manhattan is decades long, is running for City Council. Jenny Low, a longtime Lower Manhattan activist and community leader, has entered the race for the City Council seat […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Shelter Skelter Another Day, Another Court Ruling about 52 William Street On Thursday afternoon, Justice Anil Singh of the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division granted a temporary stay, which has the effect of halting once again the planned transfer of more than 200 men from the […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Alluvion Alarm Study Says Much of Downtown Will Have That Sinking Feeling by 2050 A map from Climate Central, illustrating projected risk to Lower Manhattan from rising sea levels and extreme-weather events by 2050, shows almost one-third of Downtown under water. In 29 years, approximately one-third of Lower […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Super-Talls Cut Down to Size Pair of FiDi Skyscraper Projects Suffer Setbacks 161 Maiden Lane, where glass panels have been removed from the partially completed structure, which a former contractor alleges is tilting ominously. Two separate residential towers planned for the Financial District are suffering from the local […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Such Parties Have No Grievance That Is Ripe for Review’ Judge Rules City Can Proceed with Plan for Homeless Shelter in FiDi On Wednesday afternoon, a few hours before the City shut down for the Thanksgiving holiday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Debra James nullified a temporary […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Opposites Distract Even This Year, Thankful for What Is Easy, While the How Comes Harder Walking home at twilight in the near-deserted concrete canyons, you recall (for no reason that you can discern) the Old Man teaching you the word “dichotomy” a lifetime ago, and telling you that […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Last Call? Downtown Restaurants Brace for More Closure Orders Blue Smoke, on Vesey Street, has announced that it will suspend indoor and outdoor dining, in anticipation of new restrictions As New York wades deeper into its second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, some local restaurants are trying to […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Putting the ‘Lower’ in Lower Manhattan Distressed Downtown Real Estate Indicators Point South The first Baron Rothschild is said to have advised, “the time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” If he was correct, this may be an […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Empathy Emporium Trinity Church Offers Food to Those In Need Trinity Church is doubling down on its longstanding commitment providing assistance for those experiencing food insecurity, both in Lower Manhattan, and throughout the five boroughs. Trinity Church has launched its Compassion Market to aid New Yorkers experiencing food […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Homeless for the Holidays Judge Will Rule Next Monday on Whether to Allow FiDi Shelter Plans The Radisson New York Wall Street located at 52 William Street Hearings before State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Monday and Tuesday left unresolved the question of whether the administration of […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Not with a Bang…’ Poetry Library Shuts Down, Citing Pandemic Woes The Battery Park City Authority recruited Poets House to locate in new headquarters at Ten River Terrace, in 2004. Poets House, one of a slew of cultural institutions brought to the community by the Battery Park City […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News BLOOD DRIVE TODAY Click here for more info 12 pm – 6 pm 6 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 Giving Locally, Impacting Globally Eleemosynary Advice for Reaching Out and Making a Difference Downtown An iconic photograph of homeless children in Lower Manhattan, by pioneering photojournalist Jacob Riis, […]