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Live in FiDi, with Rents That Aren’t Sky-Hi

The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is accepting applications for 30 new apartments now under construction (including studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units) in a luxury building at 60 Fulton Street (between Cliff and Gold Streets), which have been set aside at less-than-market rents for low- and moderate-income tenants. Half of these 30...
The Exhibit is a new luxury rental building at 60 Fulton Street, which will contain 30 affordable units, available at below-market rents, and set aside for a broad range of incomes.

Helping Wee-Tail Do Retail on Par with E-Tail

The Downtown Alliance is offering a “Downtown Digital Innovation Grant” that will award one storefront business in Lower Manhattan up to $10,000 in services to improve its online presence and digital tool kit. This grant is intended to give businesses the capacity to invest in everything from digital advertising and social media strategy to outfitting...
This iconic row of small shops on Fulton Street is emblematic of the changing retail landscape in Lower Manhattan, where small businesses on besieged by a variety of converging market forces, from rising rents to cut-throat competition from e-commerce giants.

Is Congestion Pricing Plan Stalled?

In the face of political opposition and lukewarm public support, Governor Andrew Cuomo may be de-prioritizing his congestion pricing plan, which could have a significant impact on residents of Lower Manhattan. The proposal calls for imposing a series of electronic tolls on vehicles entering the area of Manhattan south of 60th Street, between 6:00 am...

Better Than Lotto

While the New York State Lottery offers mere money, this drawing could net you something more valuable: an apartment in Lower Manhattan at an affordable rent. The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is accepting applications for 97 new apartments now under construction (including studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units) in a luxury building...

The 10th Anniversary Season of the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra Begins

On Saturday night, February 10, the Winter Garden was filled long before the musicians took the stage. The audience came to see Elizabeth Pitcairnplay her Red Violin, a Stradivarius from 1720; they came to applaud Preet Bharara, the former District Attorney for the Southern District of New York as he spoke the stirring words of Abraham Lincoln...
Elizabeth Pitcairn

Sand Castles

After multiple rounds of funding since 2013, the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Beach — a project supported by elected officials, community leaders, and the public — is no nearer to opening. The plan backed by all of these constituencies aims to create a crescent-shaped wedge of sand along the East River waterfront, just north of the...
An annual kayak race, which costs $1,000 to enter and is permitted by the City, that begins on a sandy stretch of shoreline beneath the Brooklyn Bridge where another City agency says the water is too dangerous to allow the public access.