In little more than a year, Lower Manhattan fifth graders and their families will have a new option for middle school. The 75 Morton Street School, slated to welcome its first class of sixth graders in the West Village (four blocks north of Houston Street, between Hudson and Greenwich Streets) in September 2017, will become...
An architect's rendering of the new school planned for 75 Morton Street, in the West Village, which is slated to open in September, 2017, and has been designated as the zoned middle school for Tribeca and Battery Park City.
On Wednesday morning, supporters and critics of the plan to convert to commercial, retail use more than 100,000 square feet of public space in arcades along Water Street gave testimony before the City Council. The Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises opened when chairman Donovan Richards invited City Council member Margaret Chin (whose district includes the...
Le Pain Quotidien plans to open a new location at Gateway Plaza later this year, and hopes to install outdoor seating for dozens of diners on the busy sidewalk on South End Avenue, near the driveway that serves as an entrance to Battery Park City’s largest residential complex. “We hope to have outdoor seating with...
A rendering of Le Pain Quotidian's plan for outdoor seating at its new restaurant, slated to open in Gateway Plaza in August. The area in the upper right is the storefront once occupied by the Cafe Express Deli. The section at lower right in the storefront that once housed the Blooming Nails salon. And the space at lower left is the storefront that was once home to the New Plus newsstand. The right side of this image is the curb along South End Avenue. and the bottom edge of the diagram is the driveway leading into Gateway Plaza.
Six days after the replacement for the former State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was elected, the campaign to succeed his successor began, as elected Democratic Party District Leader and civil rights lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar officially declared her candidacy on Monday evening. Before a crowd of 100 people at SouthWestNY restaurant, Ms. Rajkumar said, “for too...
While the tone of the April 13th meeting was more conciliatory than that of the first one in December, I hope that BPC residents don’t get seduced into this “let’s all have a beer and chat” mood. The problems that exist regarding the legitimacy of BPCA governance are serious, and will not be easily corrected....
1370 – Building begins of the Bastille in Paris 1500 – Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal 1838 – English steamship Sirius docks in New York after Atlantic crossing. The journey lasted longer than expected, and when coal ran low the crew burned cabin furniture, spare yards, and even one mast. Home of...
