Year: 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Park Preservation Push Resiliency Plans Clash with Public Space Concerns A rendering of a control house, this one situated on the Lower East Side, similar to the structures planned for the southern portion of Battery Park City. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), as part of its ongoing...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Tenets for Tenants GPTA to Host Annual Meeting for Residents Tomorrow Night Tomorrow (Thursday, March 18) the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association (GPTA) will host its annual meeting, which will include updates by the organization’s board, the election of board members, as well as a question-and-answer session. Also on...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Debt and Taxes Mayoral Contender Has Ideas for How to Spend Battery Park City Money Above: Baruch Houses is a NYCHA public housing development on the Lower East Side. Below: Mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer: “I would implement as mayor my idea to move $40 million a year in Battery...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Unkindest Cut of All CB1 Seeks to Make Sense of Inconsistent Sidewalk-Street Connections This curb cut on Chambers Street, near the entrance to Stuyvesant High School, is a legal parking space under City regulations issued in 2009. Despite this, the NYPD wrote more than $19,000 in tickets...

View as Webpage Urban flora: Spring peepers pepper Peck Slip. Lower Manhattan’s Local News Downtown Jabs Left Lower Manhattan in Line with Borough, Ahead of City in Rates of COVID Vaccination Lower Manhattan residents are being vaccinated against the pandemic coronavirus at a rapid rate. Lower Manhattan’s local vaccination rate is roughly in line with...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Quid Pro No? Another FiDi Renter Seeks Recompense for Years of Rent Overcharges A map, compiled by New York University’s Furman Center (which advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy) illustrating the dozens of Lower Manhattan buildings—erstwhile office towers, converted to residential use—that have benefited from...