Month: February 2023

District Attorney Eyes Two Dozen-Plus Downtown Smoke Shops for Possible Unlawful Cannabis Sales On the heels of the February 7 announcement by Mayor Eric Adams and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg that they intended to combat the proliferation of illegal, unlicensed cannabis dispensaries across the borough of Manhattan, the prosecutor’s office has identified 32 such...

Public Discussion This Evening Will Review Park Resiliency Plans for Tribeca and Battery Park City’s North Esplanade The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host a public meeting about its North/West Battery Park City Resiliency Project tonight (Thursday, February 16) at Stuyvesant High School (345 Chambers Street), starting at 6:30pm. All interested persons are invited...

Borough President Scours Community for Empty and Underused Space On Which to Build New Housing Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is has identified three publicly owned sites in Lower Manhattan at which new residential buildings that would be 100 percent affordable housing can be developed. These would create up to 547 rent-protected apartments, which is...

Legal and Financial Troubles Mount at 40 Wall Street A landmark Lower Manhattan skyscraper owned by former President Donald Trump has been put on a mortgage watchlist because of the declining amount of office space currently leased there, as well as rising costs. In a story first reported by Bloomberg News, loan manager Wells Fargo...

Court Rules Against Activists Seeking Pause on Wagner Park Resiliency Project Local opponents of the plan to demolish and rebuild Wagner Park, with the aim of creating resiliency measures designed to protect against flooding, were dealt a setback on Friday, when New York State Supreme Court judge Sabrina Kraus denied their request for an injunction...

Two Leading Intellectuals Will Discuss the State of the World at Museum of Jewish Heritage French philosopher, essayist, playwright, and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy and former Soviet prisoner of conscience Natan Sharansky—two of the most renowned Jewish voices of the past half-century—will appear on stage together for the first time at the Museum of Jewish Heritage...