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...

Another Longtime Downtown Resident Succumbs to September 11-Related Illness Juanita Gore-Thomas, a resident of Lower Manhattan starting in October, 1971 (when she and her husband purchased a home in the Seaport District’s newly opened Southbridge Towers), died on February 17 at 77 years of age. The cause of death was colon cancer, associated with exposure...

Hybrid Ferries Coming to Battery Park City Terminal, Offering Lower Emissions and Less Noise NY Waterway, the company that operates between the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal and various cities in New Jersey, has committed to converting several of its vessels to diesel-electric hybrid propulsion. “Our goal is a 100 percent electric fleet when we...