Month: April 2023

Nonprofit Seeks to Launch Local School for Disabled Kids An educational non-profit based in the Financial District, which serves developmentally disabled children, is proposing to create a new preschool on Maiden Lane. Founded in 1949, AHRC (the initials refer to the group’s core values: Advocacy, Humanity, Reimagination, and Change) works to enable neurodiverse children and...

Monument Proposed for FiDi Park to Recall Little Syria A plan to create a memorial dedicated to the writers of the Arab diaspora, who came together in Lower Manhattan during the early years of the 20th century, will add four graphic walls, one bench wall, and a sculpture to Elizabeth Berger Plaza, a small, triangular...

Establishment Icons and Agitprop Action Paintings Certify Tribeca as Gallery Mecca Three relocating or expanding galleries and a significant new retrospective have the collective effect of certifying Tribeca’s status as the epicenter of the New York art scene. The galleries are Alexander Gray Associates (which is leaving Chelsea after almost 20 years), Marian Goodman Gallery...

Downtown’s Thoroughfare to Nowhere Might Soon Go Somewhere City Council member Christopher Marte is leading a coalition of several dozen Lower Manhattan organizations that want to reopen Park Row, which has been closed to civilian vehicles since September 11, 2001, and reopened only for pedestrian and cyclists in 2018. For decades, the artery that once...

Push for Task Force to Incubate Consensus on West Side Resiliency Community Board 1 (CB1) is advocating for the creation of a multi-agency West Side Task Force that will enable an integrated, holistic view of resiliency measures along the Hudson River waterfront. This proposal aims to address the conflicts and contradictions that can emerge when...

Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Office-to-Residential Transformation in FiDi A suit filed in State Supreme Court aims to derail plans to convert the office tower known as the New York Technology Center, at 55 Broad Street (corner of Beaver Street), into apartments. In a story first reported by the property industry newsletter, The Real Deal, one...