Tag: Local

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) plans to spend $600,000 to fix a leak in the roof of the Asphalt Green community center on North End Avenue. “From the outset there were some problems with leakage into the facility,” explained Gwen Dawson, the BPCA’s vice president for real property at the Authority’s October 29 board...

You can see the building through Trinity Church cemetery as you walk along Broadway, just north of Wall Street. The large letters on the fourteen-story art deco façade identify it as the American Stock Exchange.      From inside the cemetery yard above Trinity Place, relief sculptures show ships, railroads, factories, and farmland that hint...

The operators of the Hudson Club, the events venue on West Thames Street that was raided by the NYPD and shut down in July, after allegations of serving liquor without a license, have been issued a court order barring removal of property from the premises, and also banning further sales of alcohol. In the first...

Fifty Novembers ago, in the hushed, complacent serenity of the suburbs east of Manhattan, a family barely one generation removed from fresh-off-the-boat shanty dwellings gathered among its lace curtains, and shared dreams of a cut-glass future.   The woman of the house, who imagined herself to be first among equals in her gaggle of siblings...

More than 100 concerned students, parents, and community leaders turned out for a rally on the steps of P.S. 150 in Tribeca last Tuesday, to voice outrage at the school’s pending closure. Anshal Purohit, co-president of the P.S. 150 Parent-Teacher Association and the parent of a fourth grader at the highly regarded elementary school, told...

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and Community Board 1 (CB1) will co-host a public meeting tonight (Monday, November 19) to update residents about the state of planning for the resiliency project now being formulated for the neighborhood’s ball fields. The meeting, which begins at 6:00 pm, takes place at Six River Terrace (opposite the...