What To Do with Erstwhile Heroes Who Now Look Like Villains?      On Friday, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by calling for the removal from Broadway’s Canyon of Heroes two sidewalk plaques that honor French government officials who later collaborated with Nazi Germany.      One recalls the October...

Push to Reactivate Beacon and Time Ball in Seaport Aims to Make Everything Old New Again A Lower Manhattan landmark may soon get a facelift. The Titanic Memorial Lighthouse has been hiding in plain sight at the corner of Pearl and Fulton Streets for nearly five decades. But its story stretches back for more than...

Next Generation Wireless Antenna Network Generates Static City Council member Christopher Marte is joining a chorus of demands that the City offer more notice and greater consultation to communities before installing fifth generation cellular phone towers on public streets. The towers, which are each as tall as a three-story building, transmit more robust signals for...

Proposal from Mayor and Governor Looks to Lower Manhattan as Model, But Risks Replicating Failures as Well as Successes In December, Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams partnered to release a new plan to transform New York City into a metropolis calibrated to the needs a post-pandemic world. This proposal paints a sobering statistical...

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...