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Being Vigilant about the View

The Howard Hughes Corporation plans to build a large new restaurant under the FDR Drive, near the intersection of John and South Streets, in the South Street Seaport neighborhood. At its January 22 meeting, Community Board 1 (CB1) debated two resolutions to authorize this proposal. The first resolution, which considered whether to grant the new...
An architect's rendering for the new Blockhouse Restaurant, proposed for publicly owned land beneath the FDR Drive.

‘Make Changes’

Here are the last words of Patrick Turner, aged 16: “So much pressure is placed on the students to do well that I couldn’t do it anymore. There is never a moment to brake. Finals have pressured me immensely, along with a lot of other people. I want you to know that my parents were...

The Pace of Change

Lower Manhattan’s Pace University, held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday to unveil the recently completed first phase of a multi-year plan to upgrade its campus: the extensive modernization to its signature Downtown structure, One Pace Plaza (built in 1969), and the adjacent historic structure, 41 Park Row (which dates from 1857). The renovation, which began...

New Date Night Destination Coming to FiDi

A national theater chain that aims to make movies fun again (with equal parts etiquette and alcohol) is coming to the Financial District. Community Board 1 (CB1) recommended approval of a liquor license for the Alamo Drafthouse, a chain of cinemas that signed a lease for a 40,000-square foot space at 28 Liberty Street in...
A 40,000-square foot, 14-screen multiplex cinema is coming to the underground levels of 28 Liberty Street, where developer Fosun International is creating more than 300,000 square feet of subterranean retail,

Calendar

6 to 7:30PM Formaggio & Vino Eataly Cheese and wine tasting class with Eataly’s experts. $55. World Trade Center. www.eataly.com 6:15PM Battery Park Book Club New York Public Library Join the Battery Park Book Club for a lively discussion of a great book. This month’s book is “On Chesil Beach”, by Ian McEwan. free. Battery...

Hope Floats

Shimon Attie, a visual artist who first made his reputation in the 1990s by projecting slides of scenes from Jewish life in Germany before World War Two onto the sides of buildings in modern Berlin, will be treating Lower Manhattan residents to a silent film about asylum seekers for the next several nights. The film,...
Safe Harbor: A film about refugees and migration will be on display from a barge towed through local waters for the next several nights.