Year: 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Inn-plosion Downtown Hotelpocalypse Continues as Two Hostelries Go to Auction After Loan Default Above: 126 Water Street Below: 51 Nassau Street A pair of Lower Manhattan hotels will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on Thursday, after the holding company that owns the properties was unable to...

Community Gathers at the Doors of the Museum of Jewish Heritage to Condemn Racist Symbol Yesterday afternoon, community members and elected officials joined with students, parents, and teachers from the Battery Park City School (PS/IS 276) in front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust to forcefully condemn the...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Happy Trails Newly Completed 750-Mile Bikeway Begins in Battery Park City Lower Manhattan latest landmark—the southern terminus of the longest multi-use state trail anywhere in the United States, marked by a new kiosk along the bikeway that runs parallel to West Street, near Battery Place—was unveiled on New...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Four Walls for a Few Months Longer State Extends, Expands Eviction and Foreclosure Bans Credited with Saving Thousands of Lives Above: Belongings of a homeless person. Below: State Senator Brian Kavanagh: “We are delivering real protection for countless renters and homeowners who would otherwise be at risk of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Whatever Floats Your Boat During Pandemic and Revenue Shortfall, City Hall Prioritizes Plans for New Ferry The ferry terminal on the esplanade (near Vesey Street) is slated by summer to begin hosting an additional 60 vessels each day, carrying as many as 2,500 passengers, as the City inaugurates...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Lower Manhattan Unchained Questions about What’s In Store for Local Retail Point to Glum Answer: Not Much The Gap at Broadway and Maiden Lane closed at the start of the pandemic and stopped paying rent in March, which caused its landlord to default on their mortgage in August...