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View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Expurgation Exasperation East River Park Advocates Demand to See Resiliency Planning Documents A rendering of the City’s plan for a resilient East River Park, rebuilt behind a seawall and elevated above nine feet of fill. A coalition of activists based on the Lower East Side has filed suit...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Hoping to Avert a ‘Death Spiral’ Local Leaders Seek Temporary Easing of Federal Mortgage Regulations on Condominiums and Cooperatives Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling upon elected officials to intercede on behalf of condominiums and cooperatives, where the economic downtown triggered by the pandemic coronavirus has resulted in...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News OPINION AND ANALYSIS The New Roaring Twenties New York City Won’t Be The Same, But It Will Be Great A chorus of New York naysayers are telling us that the City will never be the same after this pandemic. They are right—but not in the way they think....

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘How Is One to Speak of Such Things and Not Lose One’s Mind?’ Museum of Jewish Heritage Commemorates Losses Among Community of Survivors The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located within Wagner Park, in Battery Park City, is memorializing the loss of Holocaust survivors who perished during the pandemic....

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News How Much Is Too Much? CB1 Discussion Tonight Will Examine BPCA Finances Tonight (Wednesday, April 7) the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will host a review of the finances of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). To participate in this online meeting, which starts...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Harboring Good Will Highly Regarded Maritime School on Governors Island to Expand Building 515, the historic structure (and former hospital) into which the Harbor School will expand. A years-long campaign by Lower Manhattan community leaders, elected officials, and parents came to fruition on Monday when an agreement to...