Month: February 2023

Narcotics Task Force Seizes 50,000 Fentanyl Pills, Worth $1 Million, in Lower Manhattan While street-level drug activity is relatively rare at the southern tip of Manhattan, the neighborhood saw another major drug bust a few weeks ago, when a trafficker from California was caught with a large narcotics shipment, apparently intended for eventual transfer to...

Park Resiliency Plans for Rockefeller Park and Belvedere Plaza The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) hosted a public meeting about its North/West Battery Park City Resiliency Project on Wednesday, February 8, at Stuyvesant High School (345 Chambers Street), starting at 6:30pm. The session gave participants an overview of evolving plans for the creation of a...

CB1 Outlines Four Score and Eight Priorities for Lower Manhattan The administration of Mayor Eric Adams is being urged by Community Board 1 (CB1) to allocate funds to 88 local needs in the coming (2024) fiscal year, ranging from retirement communities and bike lanes to parks and community centers. In Battery Park City, CB1 wants...

Albany Allocates $20 Million to Revitalize Downtown’s Asian Ethnoburb Governor Kathy Hochul is allocating $20 million to help revitalize Chinatown in the wake of the Covid pandemic, as part of the State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Noting that Lower Manhattan’s Asian enclave is home to the largest Chinese population in an urban area outside of China,...

Local College Honors Professor Whose Patchworks Were Masterworks Tribeca’s Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) kicked off its observance of Black History Month on Wednesday by honoring the late Professor Edward M. Bostick (right), who taught English and linguistics at the school for almost half a century, before retiring in 2020 and passing away last...

Hudson River Vistas May Be Eclipsed by Planned Flood Barriers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning resiliency measures for the West Side of Lower Manhattan that will rely primarily on a 12-foot-high seawall running along Hudson River Park, wedged between the bikeway and the pedestrian promenade. The preliminary plan calls for the structure...