As many as 10,000 people per weekend day will be pushed onto Battery Park City streets by a plan to use ferries to replace PATH train service to the World Trade Center, which will be on weekend hiatus for the next two years, during repairs to a pair of tunnels beneath the Hudson River that...
The ferry terminal on the Esplanade (near Vesey Street) will soon host enough extra vessels to bring as many as 10,000 commuters per day to local streets, as PATH service to the World Trade Center goes offline on weekends for the next two years.
Tomorrow (Saturday, December 15), the Rooftop at Pier 17 Winterland, opens for the season, featuring a pop-up winter village and market, along with New York’s first outdoor rooftop ice skating rink. The facility, which is nearly the size of the iconic ice rink in Rockefeller Center, is slated to offer not only traditional ice-skating lessons...
On Thursday, December 6, the 200-year-old New York Stock Exchange saw its first-ever public menorah lighting. On the fifth night of the eight-day holiday of Chanukah, Rabbi Nissi Eber lit the Chanukah menorah at a public Menorah lighting outside the Exchange on Broad Street. The gathering of hundreds of celebrants was organized by Chabad of...
Hundreds of celebrants gather at the public Chanukah menorah lighting organized by Chabad of Wall St at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, NY on Dec. 6, 2018. photo:NYSE
As the historic New Market Building in the South Street Seaport faces demolition, community leaders are beginning to ponder the future of the site. Anthony Notaro At the November 27 meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), chair Anthony Notaro observed that the City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), “says that building is falling apart, it’s condemned,...
The New Market Building in the South Street Seaport, which preservationists want saved, the City wants demolished, and CB1 wants reserved as the site for new civic amenities.
Brookfield Properties, the owner of the giant Brookfield Place retail and office complex, plans a gut renovation to modernize the lobby of 200 Liberty Street, which faces the south side of Liberty Street, between South End Avenue and West Street. At the November 27 meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), Tammy Meltzer, who chairs the...
This architect's rendering illustrates Brookfield's plans for the lobby at 200 Liberty Street, including the demolition of the triumphal twin staircases that currently flank either side of the escalator, the removal of the second-floor terrace that currently surrounds the space, and the absorption of the exterior arcades that ring the perimeter of the octagonal building.
In a development that was widely anticipated, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council member Margaret Chin (along with Speaker Corey Johnson, representing the City Council as a whole) have filed suit in Manhattan State Supreme Court on Friday to prevent the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio from approving three “super-tall” residential developments...
The four towers proposed by developers (visible on the right) as described by the de Blasio administration as "minor modifications" to nearby (and much smaller) existing structures.