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Rare Design Element for a Lower Manhattan Skyscraper

Trinity Church continued its ongoing experiment with radically inclusive dialog about the structure it plans to build at 74 Trinity Place, with a community meeting last Saturday. Held at St. Paul’s Chapel, the four-hour session drew more than 70 area residents, who contributed ideas about how the new building can serve the Lower Manhattan community....
Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer
Trinity Church's new rector, the Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer at the March 14 brainstorming meeting, encourages the Lower Manhattan community to help design and program the building that will soon rise on Trinity Place.

To Dedicate the Viaduct

The founder of Battery Park City has proposed naming its last major piece of infrastructure in honor of a longtime civic champion of Lower Manhattan. Charles Urstadt, the founding president and chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, in a speech delivered at a January 28 dinner celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Downtown Alliance,...
Robert Douglass (left), longtime chairman of the Downtown Alliance, and Charles Urstadt (right), former president and chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, at a January dinner honoring the twentieth anniversary of the Alliance, where Mr. Urstadt proposed naming the planned West Thames Bridge in honor of Mr. Douglass.