Author: Matthew Fenton

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...

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,...