Lower Manhattan lost a tireless civic champion on Tuesday when Bill Bernstein, a senior executive at the Downtown Alliance, died at age 64. “He was one of the people who came back to Lower Manhattan on September 12, 2001,” said Community Board 1 chair Catherine McVay Hughes, recalling how Mr. Bernstein talked his way past...
Bill Bernstein addressing the crowd in December 2013 at the dedication of Elizabeth Berger Plaza
A building with a tangled pedigree will soon become Lower Manhattan’s newest palatial townhouse, if plans recently approved by Community Board 1 (CB1) are carried out. The building in question is located at 11 Hubert Street, roughly between the Citigroup tower and the Holland Tunnel plaza. The structure was built in 1946 by Dietrich Wortman,...
An architect's rendering of how the former garage will appear after conversion into a palatial townhouse.
A building with a tangled pedigree will soon become Lower Manhattan’s newest palatial townhouse, if plans recently approved by Community Board 1 (CB1) are carried out. The building in question is located at 11 Hubert Street, roughly between the Citigroup tower and the Holland Tunnel plaza. The structure was built in 1946 by Dietrich Wortman,...
An architect's rendering of how the former garage will appear after conversion into a palatial townhouse.
Lower Manhattan’s equivalent of Central Park will open for the season tomorrow (Saturday, May 28) when the first ferry to Governors Island departs from the Battery Maritime Building (10 South Street, between Whitehall and Broad Streets) at 10:00 am. “It’s going to be a year of grills, thrills, and hills,” predicted Leslie Koch, president of...
Outlook Hill, topping out 70 feet, will offer a winding to a plaza at its summit, where visitors will confront unrivaled views of the Statue of Liberty, New York harbor, and the skylines of Brooklyn, Manhattan and New Jersey.
City Council member Margaret Chin is concerned that her office telephone number may have been hijacked by a phone bank seeking to mobilize support for a controversial zoning measure currently under consideration. At Tuesday night’s meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), Paul Leonard, Ms. Chin’s communications director, said, “we got a heads up from a...
Local children play in the public spaces describes by critics as "often underutilized covered walkways" that a recent telephone campaign (which some recipients claim was disguised to appear as if it came from the office of City Council member Margaret Chin) sought to generate support for privatizing and converting into retail space.
The embattled veterans group, the Wounded Warriors Project, is planning to roast a pig over an open fire on a Lower Manhattan street, directly in front of a mosque. This could arguably constitute a grave offense to Muslim sensibilities, in which pigs are viewed are profoundly unclean. The Iron Horse, a bar located at 32...
The scene in July, 2015, when the Iron Horse bar partnered with the Wounded Warriors Project to close Cliff Street for a pig roast.
