Author: Matthew Fenton

Restaurant Week Offers Discounts at More Than 30 Lower Manhattan Eateries   New York’s annual food celebration, Restaurant Week, is now underway and continuing for almost four weeks, through Sunday, February 12. For those whose definition of “locavore” hinges not on the food’s source, but instead where it is consumed (hint: below Canal Street), the...

Another Leader Who Helped Build (and Rebuild) Battery Park City Lost to September 11-Related Illness On Saturday, longtime Battery Park City resident and community leader Kathy Gupta died in her home, in Gateway Plaza. This makes her the latest in a succession of community leaders and longtime residents made gravely ill and then taken by...

FiDi’s New Indoor Play Space for Kids Will Emphasize Therapeutic Benefits

BPCA Plans to Issue $400 Million in New Debt to Safeguard Community Against Climate Change The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) is poised to issue approximately $400 million in new bonds later this year, to finance resiliency measures designed to protect the community from flooding as a result of storm surges and rising sea levels...

Hundreds of Local Storefronts Remain Rented to Corporate Brands, While Small Businesses Struggle, and Landlords Warehouse Empty Space A new report from the Center for an Urban Future (CUF), a public policy think tank that uses data-driven research to bring attention to overlooked issues, documents that the proliferation of chain stores in Lower Manhattan has...

Congress Enacts Partial Funding to Keep World Trade Center Health Program Operating At the last possible moment, on Friday, December 23, the U.S. Senate ratified a bill that directly affects many hundreds of Lower Manhattan residents. The so-called Omnibus Bill, intended to pay for all government operations beyond that date, contained a provision (sponsored by...