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Brooklyn Bridge Beach Park. It isn’t exactly Coney Island. You probably couldn’t spread more that a dozen or two blankets and that’d be at low tide, because at high tide, it’s mostly under water. But Brooklyn Bridge Beach Park officially opened on July 14 for one day during the Waterfront Alliance’s 11th annual City of Water Day.   The Waterfront...

A new analysis of price movements in Battery Park City apartments — both rentals and condominiums — finds that valuations have begun to tick upward, but have still not fully recovered from a recent softening. The Battery Park City Report for the second quarter of 2018, recently issued by Platinum Properties, a brokerage firm headquartered...

A construction firm has pleaded guilty second-degree manslaughter in causing the 2017 death of a worker at a building being erected in the Financial District, by creating unsafe conditions. The contractor, SSC High Rise, was hired to pour concrete on the upper floors of the 60-story building at 161 Maiden Lane, near the corner of...

City Council member Margaret Chin has introduced a resolution calling for two-way tolling on the Verrazano Bridge. Although the span, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island, is located outside of Ms. Chin’s district, such a move could have a dramatic impact within Lower Manhattan, which she represents. A recent study, performed by Sam Schwarz Engineering,...

Tomorrow (Saturday, July 14), City of Water Day will offer Lower Manhattan residents a dozen-plus ways to get close to, out on, and in the waters that surround Downtown. Organized by the Waterfront Alliance, in partnership with a coalition of community groups and non-profit organizations, City of Water Day will also feature events in all...

In June, the Howard Hughes Corporation, which already owns or leases large tracts of land in the South Street Seaport District, announced that it was buying an additional full block, consisting of a one-acre parking lot — bounded by Pearl, Beekman, and Water Street, as well as Peck Slip — from Milstein Properties. The northern...