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On Tuesday, March 6, Church Street School for Music and Art will be holding their annual Fundraising soiree known as The Event at the Tribeca Rooftop beginning at 6:30pm. Now in its 28th year, Church Street School for Music and Art recently moved to their new space at 41 White Street getting a literal new lease on life....

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Monday, March 5), from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community, and...

A pair of data-driven social media platforms are highlighting Lower Manhattan as a place where human-powered mobility flourishes. The first is Strava, a website and mobile app that utilizes satellite navigation to track athletic activity. Strava has tapped into the mountain of data it collects about its users’ workouts to create a “heat map” that...

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...

Although Benjamin Jones joined the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) as its vice president for administrative affairs three years ago, he was only recently confirmed as the agency’s new president. In advance of the Open Community Meeting that the Authority will host on Monday (March 5), Mr. Jones sat down for a question-and-answer session with...

The Housing Subcommittee of Community Board 1 (CB1) has updated its list (see below) of rent-stabilized apartments in Lower Manhattan, and documented that there are currently 5,213 such units within the district, which is a collection of neighborhoods encompassing 1.5 square miles, bounded roughly by Canal, Baxter, and Pearl Streets and the Brooklyn Bridge. This...