If Lower Manhattan seems jammed with tens of thousands of people who live here, hundreds of thousands who work here, and more than an million who visit here as tourists each year, get ready for another population that may soon join their ranks: several thousand people accused or convicted of criminal offenses. Anthony Notaro At...
The Manhattan Detention Complex (colloquially known as "the Tombs") located at White and Centre Streets, may become the site for a new jail with a detainee headcount larger than that of the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
The first quarter of 2018 was a good time to buy a condominium or co-op in Lower Manhattan, and a grim moment to be selling one. This is the consensus view of a slew of market research reports that were issued on Monday by leading real estate firms. Analyses by the Corcoran Group, Stripling, and...
Battery Park City and the Financial District were Manhattan's slowest moving market in the first quarter of 2018.
The City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has hired engineering firm AECOM to take a fresh look at the idea for a gondola to connect Governors Island to both Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to a report first published in Crain’s New York Business. This project may breathe fresh life into a 2006 proposal by architect...
A rendering of the 2006 proposal by architect Santiago Calatrava for a gondola connecting Governors Island to Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. This widely praised idea never gained traction, but a new version is currently under review by the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio.
A statistical snapshot of the Lower Manhattan economy, prepared by the Downtown Alliance for Community Board 1 (CB1), paints a picture of a thriving local nexus of commerce and culture. The Alliance report notes that the Lower Manhattan population of approximately 61,000 inhabits 33,000 households, which translates to the average dwelling serving as home to...
A parent leader is calling upon the City’s Department of Education (DOE) and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to increase diversity in Manhattan’s District 2, which includes Lower Manhattan, as well as the East Side south of 97th Street (with the exception of the Lower East Side) and the West Side south of...
Shino Tanikawa, vice president of the Community Education Council for District 2 (which includes Lower Manhattan) wants to break concentrations of high and low academic achievement in local middle schools.
In the month following the Valentine’s Day Massacre in Parkland, Florida the national stereotype about teens has been sorely challenged. We’re not just about decorating the gym for prom night. We can charge forward on serious issues and effect change with lightning speed, while seasoned politicos remain stuck in the muck that they throw at...
Tahseen Chowdhury, a senior at Stuyvesant High School
Courtesy of Tahseen Chowdhury
