Developers have filed permits with City agencies to create another 813 apartments in the Financial District, in the twelve-month period ending July 1, 2018, according to a new analysis by Localize.city, an online database that uses artificial intelligence to provide buyers and renters with critical insights for every New York City address. This marks FiDi […]

Downtown resident Patrick Sheldon reports a sighting: Meet the Great Egret. That long neck is pulled in when he flies and those wings appeared to be more than four feet across in the air. The egret can have four- to five-foot wingspans. He appeared the day of the paddleboard races (September 25th) and there were […]

Nestled in the heart of the Financial District lies Fraunces Tavern Museum, where familiar words and traces of forgotten history are illuminated. On the ground floor at 54 Pearl Street, a jazzy tune drifts out of the roped-off bar to the left, and clinking plates and chattering tourists and Wall Street workers are reminders that this tavern has […]

Community Board 1 (CB1) is advocating to protect a constituency that is often overlooked in discussions about affordable housing: residents who own their apartments, rather than renting them. A resolution passed at CB1’s July meeting calls upon the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to create protections for homeowners in Lower Manhattan, as part of […]

City Comptroller Scott Stringer has issued his annual Neighborhood Economic Profiles report, which provides a financial and demographic snapshot of each community throughout the five boroughs of New York City, and yields some interesting insights about Lower Manhattan. For the purposes of this report, Downtown is defined as Manhattan, south of 14th Street, west of […]

Three State legislators who represent Downtown in Albany have been given high marks by the New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV), the only statewide environmental organization in New York that campaigns for clean water, clean air, renewable energy and open space through political action. In its annual State Environmental Scorecard, the NYLCV evaluated every […]

Lower Manhattan is emerging as a mecca for millennials (defined here as people born between 1977 and 1996), according to a new report prepared by RENTCafe, a nationwide apartment search website. The study, produced by Nadia Balint, a senior writer and researcher at RENTCafe, finds that urban cores across the nation are magnets for this […]

“I have told my family that I’ve decided to survive this,” says Theseus Roche, the grieving father who lost his 15-year-old daughter, Imogen, when she died on September 2, in an accidental fall from a fifth-floor fire escape at the Tribeca apartment where she was attending a party. She will be honored and remembered tomorrow […]

According to a discussion at a summer meeting of the Battery Park City Authority(BPCA) board, there may yet be an opportunity to revise the most controversial aspect of the plan to build resiliency measures in Wagner Park, but the potential scope of such modification appears to be limited. At the July 24 BPCA board meeting, […]

A new State law, sponsored by Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou, which extends health benefit for first responders to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo last Friday. Ms. Niou said, “the attacks left a profound scar on Lower Manhattan and all of New York. We remain forever […]

The mild temperature last weekend enticed you into turning off the air conditioner and keeping the windows open for the first time in recent memory. And that let in the sound on Sunday afternoon that you should have been expecting, but weren’t prepared for. First came the sirens, dozens of them, followed by bleating insistent […]

At the September 5 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), engineer Matt Krenek announced that the long-awaited West Thames pedestrian bridge will not open until the second half of 2019. Mr. Krenek, who works for Skanska USA (the outside firm managing the project), explained that, “we’ve obviously been working […]

The good news: Local rents have come down over the last 12 months. The bad news:Northern Battery Park City is still the most expensive place in America to rent an apartment. This according to a study by the RentCafe real estate blog, which finds that the average rent in the 10282 zip code (which covers […]

More than a decade of advocacy by community leaders came to fruition at a meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) on Tuesday evening, when Tammy Meltzer announced that the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has agreed to install a traffic light at the intersection of South End Avenue and […]

Brookdale Senior Living, the largest owner and operator of senior living communities throughout the United States, is selling its local outpost, Brookdale Battery Park, located at the corner of Chambers Street and North End Avenue, for $194 million. The purchaser is a real estate investment trust, Ventas, which invests primarily in properties serving various aspects […]

Two local elected officials are demanding meaningful consultation with the community before the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio moves ahead with a plan to create a giant new prison complex in Lower Manhattan. City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will lead a public Town Hall meeting to discuss these […]

In its New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Study, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering various plans to “manage the risk of coastal storm damage…while contributing to the resilience of communities, critical infrastructure, and the environment.”   One alternative includes a massive five-mile-long barrier at the mouth […]

Since 1986, The River Project has been working to protect and restore the ecosystem of New York Harbor through scientific research, hands-on environmental education, habitat improvement and innovative waterfront programs. Manhattan Deputy Borough President Matthew Washington served as the evening’s emcee. The annual fundraising event featured an evening of music, cocktails and dinner while cruising […]