Tonight, as part of the 2016 River to River Festival, more than a dozen Lower Manhattan museums, cultural institutions, and historic landmarks will open their doors, free of charge, for Night at the Museums. Participating venues include the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the South Street Seaport Museum, the China Institute, the Museum of Jewish...
The Museum of American Finance's current exhibit
Worth Its Weight: Gold from the Ground Up, captivates visitors with the many spectacular and unexpected ways gold has influenced our lives.
Community Board 1 (CB1) is seeking to organize opposition, both in Lower Manhattan and City-wide, to a Department of Education (DOE) policy that combines gyms and auditoriums into a single space, known as a “gymnatorium.” The DOE has adopted this policy in recent years as a way to save on both cost and space when...
The 15th annual River to River Festival, Lower Manhattan’s annual, free summer arts celebration, began yesterday and will continue through Sunday, June 26. The 11 days of live dance, music, theater and visual arts will present more than 80 separate performances and events, spread across dozens of Lower Manhattan venues, to a total audience of...
Dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey perform "The Set Up" at Cannon's Walk in the South Street Seaport, as part of the 2015 River To River Festival
Photo: Darial Sneed
A grassroots organization called Democracy for Battery Park City (“Democracy4BPC”) has gathered more than 2,200 signatures on a petition that calls upon Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint residents of the community to a majority of the seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). This number represents the equivalent of slightly more...
State Senator Daniel Squadron: "The community is given too weak a voice on the Authority that governs it. As the community's petitioning effort shows, there's broad support for a larger community role on the Board."
Each year in late Spring, Chris Nadareski, a research scientist with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, ascends to the tops of three of the city’s bridges and attaches identifying bands on newly hatched falcon chicks. The Metropolitan Transit Authority Bridges and Tunnels project began in 1983 as part of a New York...
The City Council’s Subcommittee on Zonings and Franchises voted on Tuesday to approve a controversial zoning measure that seeks to convert to commercial, retail use more than 100,000 square feet of public space in arcades along Water Street. Tuesday’s vote will be followed today by a vote of the Council’s Land Use Committee, and another...
City Council member Margaret Chin (flanked by members of the Council's Zonings and Franchises Subcommittee) originally opposed the plan to allow Water Street building owners to convert 2.6 acres of public space inside arcades to private, retail use, but endorsed a modified version of the proposal, which the panel unanimously voted to support on Tuesday.
