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Today’s Calendar

The crowds and flowers at City Hall   3PM Love Thy Neighbor Tour Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Join us for the Love Thy Neighbor tour, an hour-long tour that discusses the stories of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and settling in the United States using unique artifacts from...
The crowds and flowers at City Hall

Local Heroes

Local Heroes Manhattan Youth to Honor Downtown Education Supporters, Volunteers with Community Awards Community Board 1’s Youth and Education Chair Tricia Joyce: “I was raised by a strong mother who was and is a great role model in this way. I hope to do the same for my daughters.” Tonight (Thursday, April 11) Manhattan Youth...
Community Board 1's Youth and Education Chair Tricia Joyce: "I was raised by a strong mother who was and is a great role model in this way. I hope to do the same for my daughters."

Weekend Calendar MARCH 8, 9, 10

March 8 7 PM New York Stories: Sonia Sotomayor 911 Museum and Memorial U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will reflect on the impact of the 9/11 attacks on American society from her unique vantagepoint as a native New Yorker who watched as her city and neighborhood were devastated, and then witnessed the city rebuild. FREE...

Pont Punt

The much-delayed West Thames pedestrian bridge project appears to be keeping to its most recent schedule, first announced last September, and is likely on track to open during the late summer or early autumn of this year. This was the takeaway from a presentation at the February 6 meeting of the Battery Park City Committee...
An architect's rendering of what the completed structure will look like, when it opens later this year.

‘Our Greatest Fiduciary Duty and Responsibility’

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) and Community Board 1 (CB1) will co-host a public meeting tonight (Monday, November 19) to update residents about the state of planning for the resiliency project now being formulated for the neighborhood’s ball fields. The meeting, which begins at 6:00 pm, takes place at Six River Terrace (opposite the...
West Street flooding during Sandy photo Alison Simko

Whatever the Market Will Bear

A leading housing advocacy organization has completed an exhaustive look at threats to affordability in every community in the five boroughs, and has found that Lower Manhattan in under pressure, as measured by three metrics. The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development (ANHD), an umbrella organization of 100 non-profit affordable housing and economic development groups...
ANHD's analysis finds that Lower Manhattan housing has, in recent years, become markedly less affordable in a pair of key respects.