Sheldon Silver, the onetime Speaker of the State Assembly and the longtime patron and defender of Lower Manhattan, was convicted by a federal jury on Monday afternoon of seven counts of extortion, money laundering, and honest services fraud. Although an appeal of the verdict is likely, Mr. Silver now faces up to 130 years in prison.In the...
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, speaking in front of 4 World Trade Center,
turns his face in the wind.
The New Amsterdam Market was founded in 2005 by Robert LaValva, in the vaulted, open-air arcade beneath the Municipal Building. But his creation soon moved to the site of the old Fulton Fish Market, within the South Street Seaport neighborhood. There, Mr. LaValva soon gained prominence as a leader in the fight to preserve the...
A look inside the old Fulton Fish Market, which stands abandoned today.
A company that had a de facto monopoly on tour bus service in Manhattan has agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine, and give up permits for 50 of its stops, including eight in Lower Manhattan. The company, Twin America, is largely unknown to Manhattan residents, because it is a partnership formed in 2009 by...
Tour buses, like this one, will soon have to surrender eight stops in Lower Manhattan, as part of a settlement over practices deemed anti-competitive by
government watchdogs.
Trinity Church continued its ongoing experiment with radically inclusive dialog about the structure it plans to build at 74 Trinity Place, with a community meeting last Saturday. Held at St. Paul’s Chapel, the four-hour session drew more than 70 area residents, who contributed ideas about how the new building can serve the Lower Manhattan community....
Trinity Church's new rector, the Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer at the March 14 brainstorming meeting, encourages the Lower Manhattan community to help design and program the building that will soon rise on Trinity Place.
The Old Seaport Alliance, an association that represents businesses within the historic South Street Seaport neighborhood has named Sara Williams (owner of Fresh Salt at 146 Beekman Street) and Enrico Ciotti (owner of the soon-to-debut VBar Seaport, on Front Street) as co-chairs of its board of directors. Ms. Williams and Mr. Ciotti are succeeding the...
The historic South Street Seaport neighborhood, which was inundated by six-foot wall of water during Hurricane Sandy, has begun to make a tentative recovering in the 29 months since the storm
A coordinated push by Community Board 1 (CB1), elected officials representing Lower Manhattan, and the Downtown Alliance has resulted in the allocation of a total of $14.75 million in new funds to help Lower Manhattan plan for and prepare for future extreme weather events, particularly floods. This allocation includes $6.75 million from the City and...
An architect's rendering of how one section of the proposed "Big U" flood protection system would look in Battery Park City's northern neighborhood
