Tag: Local

There Will Be Joy in Millenniumville This Spring

Millennium High School, a selective public secondary school in the Financial District that gives admissions preference to Lower Manhattan applicants, has succeeded in record time with an unprecedented campaign to raise funds in order to launch a girls’ softball team this spring. In less than three weeks, the school has collected almost $10,000 in contributions,...

Pushing Back to Bounce Back

Lower Manhattan may be in danger of becoming the poor stepchild of New York City disaster and resiliency planning. Out of $4.21 billion in federal Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) awarded to the City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, only some $10 million (or less than one-quarter of one percent) has...

Plaza Sweet

The Downtown Alliance is proposing to eliminate a two-lane exit ramp from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and combine a pair of small Financial District plazas that it separates into a single, larger public square. One of the two spaces, Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza, is located on the north side of the exit ramp, and surrounded...

Financial District Committee Meets Tomorrow

AGENDA: Governors Island – Update by Leslie Koch, President of the Trust for Governors Island 68-74 Trinity Place/103-109 Greenwich Street, application pursuant to section 72-21 of the Zoning Resolution for a Board of Standards and Appeals variance to facilitate the development of a Parish House and residential tower- Resolution 55 Broadway, application for renewal of...
Subway Station

Exercising the Franchise

Today (Tuesday, November 4) is election day. Any resident of Lower Manhattan (or, for that matter, New York City) can find the location of their polling place by visiting this website. For an even-handed, non-partisan guide to candidates, issues, and races (including web links to all sides in each contest), please visit here. In addition...

Frightening Fun: Eve of All Hallows Festivities

Halloween fun abounds Downtown today. From 3:00 to 5:00 pm, Trinity Church will host Hometown Halloween in its historic churchyard, where costumed kids are invited to sip cider, play in the photo booth, and trick or treat among the gravestones, while also meeting historic characters, many of whom are buried there. At 7:00 pm, families...
Man with Halloween Sign
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