The largest outdoor food market in the United States, Smorgasburg, is coming to the Oculus Plaza of the Word Trade Center complex for three days, starting today (Thursday, November 8) and continuing through Saturday. Smorgasburg, which brings more than 100 vendors to at open-air locations in Williamsburg and Prospect Park in Brooklyn each week, and...
The highly regarded outdoor food fest, Smorgasburg (shown here at its home base, in Williamsburg) begins a three-day cuisine-apalooza at the World Trade Center today.
United States Congressman Jerry Nadler spoke to a crowd of several hundred Battery Park City residents in the auditorium of P.S./I.S. 276 three weeks ago, during the annual meeting of the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association. During that talk, he offered a preview of what might happen, “if the Democrats take control of the House of...
U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler: "We are faced now with attacks on the rule of law and on democratic governance that we haven't seen probably since the Civil War."
Dozens of visitors from the neighborhood and outer boroughs came to the rescue on Saturday as Animal Care Centers of NYC and Phil Castiglia’s Le Pet Spa hosted a Mobile Adoption event in Battery Park City. Judy Passer, manager of Le Pet Spa reports, “Five animals were adopted and many people signed up for fostering and/or volunteering...
Phil Castiglia, owner of Le Pet Spa, and Judy Passer, manager, hold Lilly, an 8 year-old french bulldog mix, with Rena Wright (wearing hat), a BPC resident and ACC volunteer.
Community Board 1 (CB1) has concocted a subtle stratagem for opposing (or at last delaying) a plan by the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to erect a new, 40-story jail in Lower Manhattan: proposing to confer landmark status on the existing building, above which the new structure would be perched. A resolution enacted at...
Deborah Glick, who was first elected to represent Lower Manhattan in the State Assembly in 1990, is running for reelection this year. She is so popular and widely respected that the Republican Party has not bothered to nominate an opponent against her in tomorrow’s election. And yet, Ms. Glick is being opposed — albeit unwillingly....
State Assembly member Deborah Glick: "It is a very minor, but incredibly irritating, quirk of that law that somebody cannot, after the primary, decline the nomination."
A trio of elected officials representing Lower Manhattan have seized on a procedural argument for slowing down the push by the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio to build a large new jail in Lower Manhattan. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council member Margaret Chin, and State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou are all urging...
A preliminary rendering of the 40-story prison complex that the City plans to erect on 80 Centre Street.
