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Decision Nullifies Legal Permission for Seaport Project to Move Forward Opponents of the plan to build a large residential tower in the South Street Seaport district won a significant victory on January 12, when State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron handed down a stinging rebuke to the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), and by extension,...

Push for Safe Bike Lanes Between Existing Routes Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing the City’s Department of Transportation to plan and implement a protected crosstown bicycle route between the Hudson River Greenway and the Brooklyn Bridge. At CB1’s November meeting, a succession of Lower Manhattan residents and workers who rely on bike transportation in...

Famed-But-Folded FiDi Eatery Plans Reopening in Historic Space It Has Occupied for 186 Years A Downtown culinary landmark, shuttered for several years, is preparing for its second act. Delmonico’s, which opened in 1827 and moved to its current location—at the corner of Beaver and South William Streets—a decade later, was one of a legion of...

Cancer Type Long Excluded from World Trade Center Health Program and Compensation Fund Now Covered The World Trade Center Health Program announced on Wednesday that it has officially decided to expand its list of covered conditions to include all types of uterine cancer, including endometrial cancer. This means that women enrolled in the Health Program...

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...