Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling upon the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio and elected officials representing Lower Manhattan to reconvene the Seaport Working Group, a panel of local leaders and stakeholders that met over a four-month period in 2014 and reviewed development proposals for the South Street Seaport. At the end of its...
A rendering of the Howard Hughes Corporation's vision for the landmarked Tin Building, which is to be elevated, moved slightly, and reconfigured as a dining destination. This plan has cleared several regulatory hurdles,
but has yet to break ground.
He’s cut quite the figure for more than a century, standing alone in Trinity churchyard. Hamilton-just steps away-is who everyone seems to come for, but then are all drawn to the large bronze looming to the left. All lawyer robe and courtroom wig turned away to face Broadway. Not a hint of flesh from here-even...
Bob Townley, the founder and executive director of Manhattan Youth, as well as a member of Community Board 1 (CB1), is proposing that the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) form advisory council of stakeholders and residents to foster a better relationship with the community. At its monthly meeting on April 26, the board discussed a...
Bob Townley, the founder and executive director of Manhattan Youth, who has also served on the Hudson River Park Trust Advisory Council, is proposing the creation of a similar consultative body to help guide the Battery Park City Authority.
The de Blasio administration plans to give away to real estate developers 2.6 acres of public property in Lower Manhattan that may be worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The public space being privatized consists of arcades, the columned porticos at the ground level of 19 buildings along Water Street, between Whitehall...
A map created by the Department of City Planning, highlighting the buildings where the de Blasio administration proposes to create new retail space by enclosing arcades.
Le Pain Quotidien plans to open a new location at Gateway Plaza later this year, and hopes to install outdoor seating for dozens of diners on the busy sidewalk on South End Avenue, near the driveway that serves as an entrance to Battery Park City’s largest residential complex. “We hope to have outdoor seating with...
A rendering of Le Pain Quotidian's plan for outdoor seating at its new restaurant, slated to open in Gateway Plaza in August. The area in the upper right is the storefront once occupied by the Cafe Express Deli. The section at lower right in the storefront that once housed the Blooming Nails salon. And the space at lower left is the storefront that was once home to the New Plus newsstand. The right side of this image is the curb along South End Avenue. and the bottom edge of the diagram is the driveway leading into Gateway Plaza.
Six days after the replacement for the former State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was elected, the campaign to succeed his successor began, as elected Democratic Party District Leader and civil rights lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar officially declared her candidacy on Monday evening. Before a crowd of 100 people at SouthWestNY restaurant, Ms. Rajkumar said, “for too...
