The company that owns the hotel portion of what was the Ritz-Carlton building in southern Battery Park City has stripped the luxury brand name from its hostelry, apparently as part of its ongoing campaign to shut down the lodging facility and convert it to condominium apartments. As of Wednesday night, work crews began removing the […]

Lower Manhattan is responding to the West African Ebola crisis (along with the prospect of the disease spreading here) in a variety of ways. Trinity Church has announced a grant of $300,000 toward the local response in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, where the funds will be used to provide medical supplies for health workers, […]