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Local Leaders Seek to Remedy Monumental Mistake Community Board 1 (CB1) is urging the City to erect a monument in Lower Manhattan to a civil rights pioneer who desegregated New York transit in the decade before the Civil War. While the saga of Rosa Parks and the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott has become a canonical...

Goldman Pushes Adams to Release Documents from 2001 about City Hall’s Awareness of Ground Zero Health Risks Congressman Dan Goldman is taking up a cause championed by Jerry Nadler (Mr. Goldman’s predecessor as Lower Manhattan’s representative in Washington), demanding that the administration of Mayor Eric Adams make public previously unreleased City documents that may shed...

Public Discussion Shaped Park Resiliency Plans for South Esplanade and South Cove The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) hosted a public meeting about its North/West Battery Park City Resiliency Project on Monday, March 6 at Stuyvesant High School (345 Chambers Street). The session gave attendees an overview of evolving plans for the creation of a...

Climbers to Clamber Amid Clamor Registration is now open for the ninth annual Tunnel to Towers Tower Climb NYC at One World Trade Center, in which a maximum of 1,000 participants will hike up 104 stories (that’s 2,226 steps) to arrive at the highest vantage point in New York City—One World Observatory, the three-level viewing...

Considering Which Downtown Buildings Should Be Protected Community Board 1 (CB1) has begun the process of considering which Lower Manhattan buildings to recommend to the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for designation as legally protected structures, along with the possibly of creating a new Historic District at the foot of Broadway. Jason Friedman, chair of...

Goldman Proposes to Expand Historic African Cemetery with Museum and Education Center A late 1700s map illustrates the full, six-acre extent of the Negroes Burying Ground near the location of present-day Chambers Street.   Newly elected Congressman Dan Goldman is sponsoring legislation to expand the African Burial Ground National Monument, the Lower Manhattan site that...