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The 15th annual Dine Around Downtown food festival will be held today (Wednesday, June 8), from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, at 28 Liberty Plaza (enter at Nassau and Liberty Streets). More than 40 restaurants from the length and breadth of Lower Manhattan will come together, hosted by chef, cookbook author, and Food Network star...

Financial District resident Yuh-Line Niou has entered the race to claim the Democratic nomination for the State Assembly seat representing the 65th District, once held by former Speaker Sheldon Silver (who was convicted of corruption charges in November) and recently won in a special election by Lower East Side community leader Alice Cancel. On Monday...

The historic sailing yacht Ventura, commissioned in 1919, has returned to North Cove.  Unlike past years (decades, actually) she is now sailing from the south side of the marina, between the sailing school and Shearwater. Long-time skipper and marina tenant Captain Pat Harris says he is happy with the new location.  “I’m really pleased that IGY/Brookfield has...

Community Board 1 (CB1) is siding with Tribeca residents who are opposed to a not-so-new bar coming to their block. The tavern in question is Raccoon Lodge, which opened in the early 1980s at 59 Warren Street (between Church Street and West Broadway), when the neighborhood was a near-ghost town. Its name is a reference...

She was a lifelong Gateway resident. So you’ve probably seen her around: soft white coat with tawny markings, including a patch of dark fur around one eye; happy disposition accentuated by a pink tongued smile and until she was slowed by age and a limp, a hop in her step and a perpetual wag in...

Like so many successful professionals who live in Battery Park City, Evie Dolan works late several nights a week at a job that many would view as glamorous, but she has come to see as part of her daily routine. As with legions of other Downtown natives, she then comes home to her family and...