Month: February 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Wall Street’s Secret Santa: “It was love right away” Rest in Peace, Arturo Di Modica Charging Bull, the monumental bronze sculpture secretly fabricated by artist Arturo Di Modica with $360,000 of his own money, and then plunked down on Broad Street in front of the New York Stock...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Flood of Ideas Residents are Urged to Brainstorm About How to Protect FiDi and the Seaport from Climate Change A conceptual rendering illustrates the general look that more than 100 acres of new landfill along the East River might resemble. As the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Gangs That Couldn’t Shoot Straight Crips and Bloods Exchange Gunfire at FiDi Hotel, But Hit Nobody Above: The Artezen Hotel, at 24 John Street, was the scene of a recent shootout that resulted in nine arrests, along with the recovery of eight guns. Below: Captain Thomas P....

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Report More Survivors than Responders Now are Submitting Claims September 11, 2001 Dust and debris from the collapsing tower engulfs Lower Manhattan. photo: NYPD The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) has released its annual report for 2020, which documents some significant developments. Over...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Uncivil Servants CB1 Decries Expanded Free Parking for Scofflaws with Badges For years, cars bearing law enforcement placards have parked illegally on the west side of River Terrace each day. More recently, they have begun commandeering spaces on the east side of the street, once used to drop...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Flying on One Wing Lower Manhattan Raptor Struggles to Survive Financial District resident Janet Fish was walking home from her morning shift volunteering at the Bowery Mission recently when she found herself face to face with a local aristocrat. As she passed a pizzeria at the intersection of...