Author: Matthew Fenton

Hudson River Vistas May Be Eclipsed by Planned Flood Barriers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning resiliency measures for the West Side of Lower Manhattan that will rely primarily on a 12-foot-high seawall running along Hudson River Park, wedged between the bikeway and the pedestrian promenade. The preliminary plan calls for the structure...

City Hall Gets Behind Push to Reopen Park Beneath Brooklyn Bridge In a plan released as part of his January 26 State of the City address, Mayor Eric Adams is committing to “unlocking two spaces under the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan for public use with a working group to evaluate medium- and long-term concepts for...

City Will Spend $90,000-Plus Per Day for 15 Months to Rent Bankrupt Hotel in FiDi for Migrants The administration of Mayor Eric Adams plans to rent a bankrupt Holiday Inn hotel in the Financial District at a cost of more than $34 million per year, and operate it as a shelter for illegal immigrants who have...

What To Do with Erstwhile Heroes Who Now Look Like Villains?      On Friday, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by calling for the removal from Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes two sidewalk plaques that honor French government officials who later collaborated with Nazi Germany.      One recalls the October...

Push to Reactivate Beacon and Time Ball in Seaport Aims to Make Everything Old New Again A Lower Manhattan landmark may soon get a facelift. The Titanic Memorial Lighthouse has been hiding in plain sight at the corner of Pearl and Fulton Streets for nearly five decades. But its story stretches back for more than...

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...