Month: December 2022

Onetime Lower Manhattan Candidate Who Won Brooklyn Elective Race Faces Questions About When He Left An erstwhile Lower Manhattan resident and candidate for elective office Downtown recently won a bid to represent a Brooklyn district in the State Assembly, but is facing a probe by the lower house of the State legislature to determine whether...

One of Very Few Lifelong Black Residents of Lower Manhattan Elected District Leader November’s round of elections achieved a little-noticed local milestone. Longtime activist and member of Community Board 1 Mariama James won her race for a District Leader seat, representing Lower Manhattan. A District Leader is an unsalaried, elected official who represents a portion...

Downtown University Plans to Make Plaza Sweet Pace University is embarking on a transformation of One Pace Plaza, the central building of its Lower Manhattan campus, to include new academic spaces, a modernized residence hall, and a state-of-the-art performing arts center. The rebuilt theater is slated to serve not only the university’s performing and creative...

Lower Manhattan College Awarded Grant to Help Hungry Students The Borough Manhattan Community College (BMCC), headquartered in Tribeca, has received a $100,000 grant from the online retailer Amazon to help address food insecurity among its students. In addition to the cash donation, Amazon also contributed an industrial refrigerator, to enable BMCC to offer cold products,...

East River Begins to Rival the Hudson as a Waterfront Destination Although the Hudson River Park has emerged in recent years as a focus of Lower Manhattan community life, it increasingly faces competition. Planning and development for an East River waterfront park are roughly a decade behind the political dialog and physical construction surrounding the...