Year: 2021

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...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Such’ Nonsense Appeals Court Focuses on Meaning of Four-Letter Word to Block Suit Against Two Bridges Development Plan Above: An architectural rendering of the four new residential towers proposed for the Two Bridges neighborhood, which would contain more than 2,700 apartments. The tower at left is already largely...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Shot in the Arm Downtown Lags Five-Borough Averages for COVID Vaccination Lower Manhattan residents are being vaccinated against the pandemic coronavirus at a slower rater than other New Yorkers, according to data from the City’s Health Department. Lower Manhattan is lagging behind the City-wide averages for rates...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Larceny of the Commons City Planning Commission to Consider Endorsing Privatization of Public Space in Tribeca Above: Signs on the outside of 240 Greenwich Street forbid the public from entering a lobby that was created as a public amenity, in exchange for multiple benefits to the building...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Developer Named for Five World Trade Center Nine-Hundred Foot Tower Will Include 300-Plus Affordable Units Above: The structure planned for Five World Trade Center (right) will include retail, office, and community uses, as well as 69 floors of rental apartments. Below: A schematic rendering breaks out the various...