Year: 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Higher, Wider, Handsomer Finalists Announced in Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge On some weekends, as many as 15,000 pedestrians and 3,600 cyclists compete with each other and souvenir vendors for as little as 10 feet of width on the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge,...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty Department of Defense 4th of July flyover Photo: Karl Weintraub Lawn Gone Open Space Advocate Wants City Hall Park Returned to Community The Occupy City Hall encampment at Chambers and Centre Streets. A local advocate for Lower Manhattan open spaces...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Lights, Camera, Violation Local Traffic Monitoring Device is Part of City-Wide Expansion A work crew installs a new traffic monitoring device at the corner of West and West Thames Streets. Lower Manhattan residents may soon be slightly safer, if lighter in the pocket, thanks to a new traffic...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty Department of Defense 4th of July flyover Photo: Karl Weintraub Lawn Gone Open Space Advocate Wants City Hall Park Returned to Community The Occupy City Hall encampment at Chambers and Centre Streets. A local advocate for Lower Manhattan open spaces...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Tourists are Returning Downtown photo Dorothy Lipsky  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty National Thoughts: Been There, Done That Theseus Aweighs Anchor on Troubled Waters WPA Photo Library of Congress We’re only halfway through 2020, but already, many of us have the sense that we will...