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Idealism Has a New Address in Lower Manhattan

A renowned non-profit that provides legal services and advocacy for New York’s most vulnerable populations has moved into a new office in the Financial District. The Urban Justice Center (UJC) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday in its new offices at 40 Rector Street, where the organization has taken all 32,000 square feet of the building’s...
UJC Ribbon Cutting
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (left), Urban Justice Center executive director Doug Lasdon (center), Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer (partially obscured), and City Council member Margaret Chin (in red) cut the ceremonial ribbon opening UJC's new Lower Manhattan headquarters.

Foul Ball

More than $60,0000 is missing from the cash reserve fund maintained by Downtown Little League (DLL), apparently as a result of unauthorized disbursements by a former league official. “We recently discovered a deficit in the DLL cash reserve,” a statement, which was circulated by the league to parents of players, acknowledged in early February. “The...
Little Leaguers play ball

Big Gambol

Gibney Dance is launching its inaugural spring season in Lower Manhattan with “Making Space,” a 14-week series featuring dance, theater and multimedia artists. The program begins Thursday (February 26) with “El Regreso (The Return),” by Mariangela López. In this piece, the Brooklyn-based, Venezuelan-born choreographer explores the solo form in a ritualized dance that transposes the...

To Dedicate the Viaduct

The founder of Battery Park City has proposed naming its last major piece of infrastructure in honor of a longtime civic champion of Lower Manhattan. Charles Urstadt, the founding president and chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, in a speech delivered at a January 28 dinner celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Downtown Alliance,...
Robert Douglass (left), longtime chairman of the Downtown Alliance, and Charles Urstadt (right), former president and chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, at a January dinner honoring the twentieth anniversary of the Alliance, where Mr. Urstadt proposed naming the planned West Thames Bridge in honor of Mr. Douglass.

This Joint Is Jumpin’

The equivalent of 1 out of every 26 Americans visited Lower Manhattan in 2014. These 12.4 million tourists, a 30 percent surge from 2013 levels, are just one indication of the ongoing real estate renaissance documented by a new report from the Downtown Alliance. “Lower Manhattan Real Estate Year in Review: 2014” illustrates that the...

This Joint Is Jumpin'

The equivalent of 1 out of every 26 Americans visited Lower Manhattan in 2014. These 12.4 million tourists, a 30 percent surge from 2013 levels, are just one indication of the ongoing real estate renaissance documented by a new report from the Downtown Alliance. “Lower Manhattan Real Estate Year in Review: 2014” illustrates that the...