Month: February 2018

St. Paul’s Chapel, the oldest public building in New York, has a new pipe organ — only the sixth in the church’s history, which began in 1766. The “new” organ was originally fabricated in 1989 for the Church of the Redeemer in Massachusetts, but has been completely refurbished by the master artisans at Noack Organs...

“We have been working toward the goal of expansion for many years, and it boils down to one reason-impact,” said Jacob Johnson, area manager for Smithsonian Enterprises, the operator of the Museum Store of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The site of the new retail space historically served as the Cashier’s Office...

While the New York State Lottery offers mere money, this drawing could net you something more valuable: an apartment in Lower Manhattan at an affordable rent. The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is accepting applications for 97 new apartments now under construction (including studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units) in a luxury building...

The Downtown Alliance has released its yearly analysis, “Lower Manhattan Real Estate Year in Review 2017,” which functions as a de facto report card on the Downtown economy as a whole, as well as significant demographic trends. Among the welter of statistics contained in the paper is one startling metric: the square mile below Chambers...

On Saturday night, February 10, the Winter Garden was filled long before the musicians took the stage. The audience came to see Elizabeth Pitcairnplay her Red Violin, a Stradivarius from 1720; they came to applaud Preet Bharara, the former District Attorney for the Southern District of New York as he spoke the stirring words of Abraham Lincoln...

The Historic Districts Council (HDC) — a non-profit that advocates for the preservation of significant historic neighborhoods, buildings and public spaces throughout New York City — has shortlisted the Lower West Side of Manhattan as an area worthy of protection. “Prior to the construction of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and the World Trade Center, the...