Author: Matthew Fenton

Next Generation Wireless Antenna Network Generates Static City Council member Christopher Marte is joining a chorus of demands that the City offer more notice and greater consultation to communities before installing fifth generation cellular phone towers on public streets. The towers, which are each as tall as a three-story building, transmit more robust signals for...

Proposal from Mayor and Governor Looks to Lower Manhattan as Model, But Risks Replicating Failures as Well as Successes In December, Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams partnered to release a new plan to transform New York City into a metropolis calibrated to the needs a post-pandemic world. This proposal paints a sobering statistical...

Decision Nullifies Legal Permission for Seaport Project to Move Forward Opponents of the plan to build a large residential tower in the South Street Seaport district won a significant victory on January 12, when State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron handed down a stinging rebuke to the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), and by extension,...

Push for Safe Bike Lanes Between Existing Routes Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing the City’s Department of Transportation to plan and implement a protected crosstown bicycle route between the Hudson River Greenway and the Brooklyn Bridge. At CB1’s November meeting, a succession of Lower Manhattan residents and workers who rely on bike transportation in...

Famed-But-Folded FiDi Eatery Plans Reopening in Historic Space It Has Occupied for 186 Years A Downtown culinary landmark, shuttered for several years, is preparing for its second act. Delmonico’s, which opened in 1827 and moved to its current location—at the corner of Beaver and South William Streets—a decade later, was one of a legion of...

Cancer Type Long Excluded from World Trade Center Health Program and Compensation Fund Now Covered The World Trade Center Health Program announced on Wednesday that it has officially decided to expand its list of covered conditions to include all types of uterine cancer, including endometrial cancer. This means that women enrolled in the Health Program...