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Loggia Loggerheads

On Wednesday morning, supporters and critics of the plan to convert to commercial, retail use more than 100,000 square feet of public space in arcades along Water Street gave testimony before the City Council. The Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises opened when chairman Donovan Richards invited City Council member Margaret Chin (whose district includes the...
Water Street Arcade

Gym Dandy

The Community Center at Stuyvesant High School is cutting prices across all categories of membership, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), which operates the facility, has announced. “What we have in Community Center at Stuyvesant High School is an outstanding community resource — which the community isn’t fully using,” said BPCA President Hyman. “Now, with...
The Community Center at Stuyvesant High School

Spate of ‘Super-Tall’ Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households

In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank...
The building now being constructed at the corner of Murray and West Streets will rise 62 floors, for a total of 822 feet, and house 139 apartments.

Spate of 'Super-Tall' Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households

In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank...
The building now being constructed at the corner of Murray and West Streets will rise 62 floors, for a total of 822 feet, and house 139 apartments.

Today in History

  1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia 1610 – Galileo discovers the first of four Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Although Jupiter has at least sixty-seven moons, these four, known as the Galilean moons, are extremely large. Ganymede, the largest, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury 1714 – Typewriter...

O Say, Can You See?

The road trip is as American as apple pie, child obesity and Wal-mart. And for those who have made this nationalistic pilgrimage know that the act of taking photographs is akin to a sacred rite. So finally, for the first time ever, a survey of the American Road trip has been undertaken by David Campany,...