Author: Robert Simko

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Concourse Considerations BPCA Prepares Preliminary Steps to Implement South End Avenue Plan South End Avenue, which functions as the equivalent of Main Street for Battery Park City’s southern neighborhood, has been the focus of a years-long effort to reach consensus on redesigning the thoroughfare. The Battery Park City...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Detention Abstention Downtown Non-Profit Sues to Halt Arrest for Minor Offenses Above: Protestors take over West Street last July 4. The Legal Aid Society alleges that many of these demonstrators were illegally arrested by police, in contravention of a State law that mandates the issuance of summonses for...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Court Unpacking Scheme Nadler Proposes Expanding Nation’s Highest Appellate Panel to Match Number of Lower Courts U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler (announcing his bill in front of the Supreme Court): “Nine justices may have made sense in the 19th Century, when so many of our most important laws—covering...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘A Gifted Teacher with a Dream’ Church Street School Co-Founder Prepares to Step Down One of the founders of a Lower Manhattan institution is stepping aside. Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores announced earlier this month that, after 30 years at the helm of the Church Street School for Music and...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘The Worst-Case Scenario’ Rally Today Will Focus On Possible Fiscal Cataclysm Facing Battery Park City Condo Owners Above: Battery Park City. Below: Justine Cuccia, a co-founder of Democracy for Battery Park City (shown here leading a 2017 rally for the rights of residents) says, “the BPCA collected $338 million...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News An Outbreak of Affordability Soft Rental Market Puts Downtown Apartments within Reach of Voucher Guidelines, Almost One perverse boon arising from the pandemic coronavirus (and the economic slowdown that it triggered) is a slight—but significant—uptick in housing affordability in Lower Manhattan. A new study from the online real...