Month: March 2023

Climbers to Clamber Amid Clamor Registration is now open for the ninth annual Tunnel to Towers Tower Climb NYC at One World Trade Center, in which a maximum of 1,000 participants will hike up 104 stories (that’s 2,226 steps) to arrive at the highest vantage point in New York City—One World Observatory, the three-level viewing...

Considering Which Downtown Buildings Should Be Protected Community Board 1 (CB1) has begun the process of considering which Lower Manhattan buildings to recommend to the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for designation as legally protected structures, along with the possibly of creating a new Historic District at the foot of Broadway. Jason Friedman, chair of...

Goldman Proposes to Expand Historic African Cemetery with Museum and Education Center A late 1700s map illustrates the full, six-acre extent of the Negroes Burying Ground near the location of present-day Chambers Street.   Newly elected Congressman Dan Goldman is sponsoring legislation to expand the African Burial Ground National Monument, the Lower Manhattan site that...