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Gunfire erupted near the corner of Battery Place and Washington Street shortly after local schools had let out on Monday afternoon. At least one innocent bystander, a woman in her 30s whose name has not been released, was wounded when a stray bullet struck her in the ankle. A second man sustained a gunshot wound...

Community Board 1 (CB1) has endorsed a bill now under consideration in the State Senate that would require Governor to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). Currently, only one of that agency’s seven board seats is held by a resident of the community, Martha Gallo. At the...

At its Wednesday board meeting, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) shared the preliminary findings of its two-year resiliency study, conducted by consulting firm Parsons Transportation, as part of an effort to formulate plans that will make the community more resistant to future extreme weather events, such as 2012’s Hurricane Sandy, which flooded much of...

State Assembly member Deborah Glick is sponsoring a proposed law that will (if enacted) impose a tax on residential development in New York City, to create a new, dedicated funding stream to build public schools. In a related development, two Lower Manhattan Community Boards and the Community Education Council for District 2 (which covers Lower...

Three State lawmakers representing Lower Manhattan have introduced bills in both houses of the Albany legislature that would require the governor to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). State Senator Daniel Squadron and Assembly members Deborah Glick and Yuh-Line Niou are sponsoring...

A team of real-life superheroes is moving into Lower Manhattan. Doctors Without Borders, a non-profit organization that sends squads of healthcare providers and others with lifesaving skills into war zones, impoverished developing nations, and just about any other place where large numbers of innocent people are facing immediate danger of preventable death, is relocating its...