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Letters ~ The Rector Street Bridge

Letters   To the editor: Re: Trestle Tussle The BroadsheetDAILY, January 7 Five members of the Transportation Committee voted against 3,700 community members to advance the demolition of the Rector Street Bridge rather than explore the possibility of community engagement to save it. CB1 had repeatedly passed resolutions over the years on the Rector Street Bridge,...

Letters: Preservation of the Rector Street Bridge

Letters Preservation of the Rector Street Bridge Dear Community, The Rector Street Bridge is the second item on the agenda of Community Board 1’s Transportation Committee on Tuesday January 7th at 6pm at 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A. It may be your final chance to take a stand for the preservation of the Rector Street...

Letters to the Editor Rector Street Bridge, Gansevoort Peninsular Park

Letters To the editor: Re: Preserving the Rector Street Bridge I would like to take this opportunity to report progress on saving the Rector Street Bridge to the Battery Park City Community. Early in July, the majority of residents, workers and tourists crossing the Rector Street Bridge did not know that it was threatened with...
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Preservation of Lower Manhattan’s Rector Street Bridge

Letters The Rector Street Bridge         To the editor: I couldn’t agree more with the idea that we need to do everything we can as a community to keep this extremely important passage intact. Unless there is a compelling reason presented by the appropriate authorities (safety issue with existing structure), I can’t...
Rector Street Bridge crossing West Street

The BroadsheetDAILY – 10/11/22 – Street Wise

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Street Wise Local Advocacy Group Seeks to Make the Pedestrian King in Lower Manhattan Above: a proposal for a “slow-street district” between Broadway and Water Street, from City Hall to the Battery, within which vehicular traffic would be subject to a ten mile-per-hour speed limit....

The BroadsheetDAILY – 10/6/22 – Borough President Proposes Turning One Lane of West Street Over to Bicycles

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Valorizing Velocipedes Borough President Proposes Turning One Lane of West Street Over to Bicycles The bike lane alongside West Street is heavily used. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has proposed to remove the westernmost traffic lane of West Street, from Chambers to West 57th Street...