Tag: Featured

Survivor Skills

A Town Hall meeting to answer questions and provide information about medical care and financial compensation available to Lower Manhattan residents who lived through the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath will be held on Monday (October 15) at the Municipal Building (One Centre Street, near the corner of Chambers Street). This...

Pile On!

What is currently a “sea of asphalt”, in the words of NY State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Rose Harvey, will soon morph into a full-fledged construction site.  In 2020 the Hudson River Park’s first ecology themed pier will open with “something for everyone” – with woodlands, wetlands, and even soccer fields.   Diana...
HRP's Roving River tank carrying an oyster toadfish

Local Elected Officials: Save Our School

City Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewerare pushing back against a plan to close P.S. 150, a highly regarded local school also known as the Tribeca Learning Center. In a letter sent Tuesday, the elected officials urge Stellar Management, the owner of the residential portion of Independence Plaza (the giant housing...
PS150 in Tribeca

The Felicity of the Commons

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has completed a year-long study, conducted in partnership with the sociology faculty at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), to determine how many people use the community’s parks, who they are, and what those parks users think of the 36 acres of public space spread throughout the neighborhood. The...

The Lessor Evil

A new online data tool from a leading housing advocacy group, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), indicates that Lower Manhattan is undergoing a gradual, but inexorable, transformation: Affordable housing, in the form of rent-regulated apartments, is steadily disappearing from the local landscape. ANHD’s Displacement Alert Map, which went live earlier this week,...
The Displacement Alert Map quantifies the loss of rent-stabilized apartments in Lower Manhattan, with buildings colored in red signifying the greatest loss of such units in percentage terms.

Asking for the Millennium

Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing the City’s Department of Education (DOE) to lease more space within the historic Financial District skyscraper that houses Millennium High School. Tricia Joyce, who chairs CB1’s Youth & Education Committee, said at the Board’s September 25 meeting, “Millennium High School is the gem of our community. It was started...
Tricia Joyce, chair of Community Board 1's Youth & Education Committee: "Millennium High School is the gem of our community. It is a perfectly diverse school, but also a very crowded school."