Month: August 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter A trio of reports quantifies the extent to which property prices in Lower Manhattan crumbled in the three months ending June 30. A pair of analyses from Platinum Properties, a...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet The City plans to create 80 miles of additional bike lanes, like this one near City Hall, in the near future. A pair of new studies outlines a future for Lower...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage New Doc on the Block Tribeca Pediatrics Founder Gets CB1’s Blessing to Renovate Historic Seaport Building The current appearance of 107 South Street, in the Seaport District Community Board 1 (CB1) is giving its approval to a proposal to alter a building within the South Street Seaport Historic...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Being Vigilant about the View CB1 Opposes New Restaurant Planned for Public Land Proposed in Seaport A rendering of the plan for a restaurant beneath the FDR Drive, in the Seaport neighborhood. Community Board 1 (CB1) is stating its opposition (for the fourth time) to a plan that...

Out of the Ashes After Two-Year Hiatus, Work Resumes at St. Nicholas Church Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday led a ceremonial resumption of construction at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, within the World Trade Center complex. The building, designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava (who additionally created the nearby Oculus, also in the...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage To Revitalize Local Enterprise Downtown Alliance Throws Lifeline to Downtown Restaurants and Retailers This iconic array of small shops on Fulton Street evokes the changing retail landscape Downtown, where small businesses have been buffeted by rising rents and cut-throat competition from e-commerce giants, along with the recent economic...