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Grand Concourse Meets Tribeca

The Bronx Museum of the Arts has announced plans to opening a satellite facility in Lower Manhattan, as part of its Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program. The new annex will be located at 80 White Street, a landmarked building in eastern Tribeca. The AIM program offers guidance to emerging New York City-based artists related...
The landmarked structure at 80 White Street will soon house an annex to the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Go for Broke

While Amazon considers whether to site its much-vaunted second headquarters in Lower Manhattan (one of 20 prospective locations that the company has shortlisted, from a previous total of more than 100 contenders), it appears already to have decided to open an outpost of its experimental retail brand here. According to a story first reported by...
The business plan for Amazon Go contemplates no cash, no cashiers, and no lines - only shoppers armed with smartphones who are observed by a sophisticated array of sensors.

The Fate of a Neighborhood

City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer are leading a last-ditch effort to slow down the aggressive push by developers to erect a string “super-tall” luxury apartment towers in an area of the Lower East Side that has historically been a low-to-midrise haven for immigrants, as well as New Yorkers of...
An architect's rendering of the four new residential towers proposed for the Two Bridges neighborhood, which would contain more than 2,700 apartments. (The tower at left is already largely complete) while the four to right are currently seeking permission to build.

Each to Their Own Taste

On Saturday, October 20, the ninth annual Taste of the Seaport food festival will offer fare from dozens of Lower Manhattan’s best restaurants and purveyors, among them Eataly, Wolfgang Puck’s Cut, Insomnia Cookies, Lobster GoGo, Mad Dog & Beans, Barbalu, SUteiShi, and Toro Loco.   Complimentary family-friendly activities will feature creative cardboard ship-building, children’s tennis...

The Lease You Can Do

The annual membership meeting of the Gateway Plaza Tenants Associationwill be held tomorrow (Wednesday, October 17), in the auditorium of P.S./I.S. 276 (55 Battery Place, near the corner of First Place). The doors will open at 6:00, and the meeting will begin at 6:45 pm. There will be presentations by multiple elected officials — among...
Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City

The Price of Resiliency

At an October 2 Open Community Meeting, officials from the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) discussed for the first time the overall budget for the resiliency plan they are formulating for the community. Authority president B.J. Jones said, in response to a question, “the overall resiliency cost for all four phases is about two-thirds of...
This preliminary rendering (now outdated) shows one early version of a plan for creating flood barriers along Battery Park City's Esplanade.