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Monkeying Around

A capacity crowd of several hundred diplomats, financiers, academics, and entertainment celebrities packed the Cipriani 42nd Street ballroom last Friday to welcome the Year of the Monkey with the China Institute, the nation’s leading nonprofit devoted to fostering closer ties between China and the United States. Banker and philanthropist Ted Wang, who serves on the...

Getting Left Back

The February 5 meeting of the School Overcrowding Task Force, a joint panel convened by elected officials representing Lower Manhattan, was the forum for discussing some good news and some bad news. On the positive side, this session marked the opening of a dialog with City officials about expanding plans for the recently announced new...

FedEx Finds Itself on a Slippery Slope in FiDi

The Federal Express Corporation, which opened a new local shipping center at 20 Pine Street in mid-2015, recently constructed a ramp on the Nassau Street side of the building that is more than 70 feet long and blocks almost half of the narrow sidewalk. Condominium board members and residents of the building are fuming about...
Making the Grade FedEx Finds Itself on a Slippery Slope in FiDi

Democrats and Republicans Pick Standard Bearers in Race for Silver’s Seat

The local Democratic and Republican parties have selected their candidates to run in the April 19 special election for the State Assembly seat vacated by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last November, when he was convicted of multiple corruption charges. The Democratic Party nomination has gone to Alice Cancel, a Lower East Side-resident who also...
Members of the Manhattan Democratic County Committee for the 65th Assembly District weigh their options for a candidate to succeed Sheldon Silver

Democrats and Republicans Pick Standard Bearers in Race for Silver's Seat

The local Democratic and Republican parties have selected their candidates to run in the April 19 special election for the State Assembly seat vacated by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last November, when he was convicted of multiple corruption charges. The Democratic Party nomination has gone to Alice Cancel, a Lower East Side-resident who also...
Members of the Manhattan Democratic County Committee for the 65th Assembly District weigh their options for a candidate to succeed Sheldon Silver

Death from Above

In the decade and a half since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Downtown Manhattan community has endured civic calamities large and small: the DeutscheBank fire of 2007, Hurricane Irene in 2011, and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. There have also been more than a few near misses, consisting mostly of construction accidents that...