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A new analysis by the Skyscraper Center (the global tall building database of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a organization with expertise on skyscrapers) indicates that of the 100 tallest buildings ever demolished anywhere in the world, 17 were in Lower Manhattan. Of the top ten, the same study finds, five were...

An investigate report by City & State, the media organization dedicated to covering New York’s local and regional politics, has found that thousands of New York City buildings have failed to file timely (and legally required) documents verifying the safety and cleanliness of their rooftop water tanks. In Lower Manhattan, the report indicates, more than...

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a suit against the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) by rescue, recovery and cleanup workers who were made sick by exposure to toxins while laboring in the community in the weeks and months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At issue is Jimmy Nolan’s...

A coalition of six elected officials representing Lower Manhattan are pushing Governor Andrew Cuomo to replace two members of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board with residents of the community governed by the agency. In a letter dated June 11, State Senator Brian Kavanagh, U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, State...

Elected officials representing Lower Manhattan are casting a skeptical eye on proposed changes to the admissions process for New York City’s specialized high schools, a group of eight selective secondary schools, where students are admitted on the basis of a competitive examination. Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed scrapping this exam in favor of a...

Lower Manhattan resident Richard Stratton is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose fiction and journalism have appeared in GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy and Story Magazine.  Nation Books published his collection of journalism, Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen. Mr. Stratton’s article, Godfather and Son published in Playboy, won the 2011 New York Press Club Award...