Community Board 1 (CB1) is exploring the possibility of using surplus funds from the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to fund resiliency infrastructure throughout Lower Manhattan. At the January 18 meeting of CB1’s Waterfront, Parks, and Resiliency Committee, chairman Paul Goldstein began the discussion by noting that, “resiliency is an issue that we need to...
CB1 is a collection of neighborhoods -- usually thought of as Battery Park City, Tribeca, the Financial District, the South Street Seaport, and the Civic Center -- encompassing 1.5 square miles.
The Gristedes supermarket chain appears to be engaged in a headlong retreat from Lower Manhattan. The firm’s owner, John Catsimatidis, is seeking to close two Downtown locations of the grocery store, at 90 Maiden Lane (in the Financial District) and at 21 South End Avenue (in Battery Park City). The firm’s desire to shutdown the...
The Gristedes grocery store at 90 Maiden Lane may soon shut down, as the firm's billionaire owner, former mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, seeks another tenant for the space.
At January 9 swearing-in ceremony for City Council member Margaret Chin, Borough President Gale Brewer pointedly predicted that, “when a real estate developer says that he wants something, and Margaret and I say he can’t have it, that developer is screwed, because we are not going to change our positions.” On Thursday, Ms. Brewer and...
The four towers proposed by developers (visible on the right) currently qualify as "minor modifications" to nearby (and much smaller) existing structures. Ms. Chin and Ms. Brewer's proposed rule change would subject these projects to a more rigorous form of official review.
The Tuesday meeting of Waterfront, Parks, and Development Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) was the venue for a spirited discussion about the City’s plan to demolish a South Street Seaport structure that many preservationist believe has significant historic value, along with the process that led to this decision. All of which has inspired calls...
The 1939 New Market Building, which many preservationist believe has significant historic value, but the City's Economic Development Corporation plans to demolish.
A commission appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to advise City Hall on what to do with historical monuments that raise complicated moral questions has recommended leaving in place a Lower Manhattan plaque that marks a parade honoring a figure later judged by history to be a villain, rather than protagonist. The same panel chose...
Charles Lindbergh is honored with a ticker tape parade through Lower Manhattan's Canyon of Heroes after his solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
The Skyscraper Museum (39 Battery Place, near the corner of First Place) is opening its doors on Sunday (January 14) to invite residents of Lower Manhattan to view, free of charge, its current exhibit, “Millennium: Lower Manhattan in the 1990s.” Today, the southern tip of Manhattan is one of the fastest growing, and most economically...
