Mayor Bill de Blasio, accompanied by a phalanx of elected officials and climate activists, came to Manhattan Youth’s Downtown Community Center in Tribeca on Wednesday afternoon to announce a pair of initiatives that aim to combat the effects of climate change. First, he announced that the City had filed suit in federal court on Tuesday...
Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Comptroller Scott Stringer (center, left and right) are flanked by (from left, Naomi Ages, the the Climate Liability Project Lead at Greenpeace USA, Damaris Reyes, executive director of Good Old Lower East Side, and 350.org founder Bill McKibben at a Wednesday press conference announcing the City's lawsuit against five major oil companies, seeking damages inflicted on New York as a result of global warming.
Battery Park City has lost its only house of worship. On Sunday, the final masses were said at the Saint Joseph Chapel, within the Gateway Plaza complex. This brings melancholy closure to a years-long struggle by parishioners and community leaders to save the church, which has been buffeted by rising rents and declining interest from...
Community Board 1 (CB1) is voicing reservations about a plan to convert the block of Thames Street between Broadway and Trinity Place into an outdoor shopping arcade, but is procedurally barred — at least for now — from giving official credence to these worries. The proposal comes from Capital Properties, the owner of 111 and...
An architectural rendering of the plan to close Thames Street and convert it into a shopping arcade.
The structure that once dominated the skyline of Lower Manhattan — and remains a spiritual and cultural touchstone of the Downtown community to this day — is planning to have some work done. The Trinity Church that now stands at Broadway and Wall Street is actually the third incarnation of the same house of worship,...
An architectural team overseeing the restoration of Trinity Church is proposing the addition of a 91-foot long glass and metal canopy to the building's south facade,which Community Board 1 views as detracting from the structure's historic character.
Lower Manhattan has a new line of defense against tragedies and disasters, ranging from medical emergencies in an individual home to mass casualty events. On December 19, the Resident Manager Emergency Response Team (RMERT) program graduated its first class, consisting of more than 40 building staff, concerned residents, and community leaders. RMERT is, in some...
First Deputy Police Commissioner Benjamin Tucker addressing the graduates,
"We in the Police Department don't get anything done without the help of the communities of this City. Because we are all in this together."
City Council member Margaret Chin is pushing back against a wave of super-tall residential development on the Lower East Side, while also working to close a loophole that help trigger the avalanche of development now engulfing the East River waterfront, between the Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. In December, the City Council unanimously passed her legislation...
The East River waterfront in the Two Bridges community, where one large residential tower (far left) is nearing completion, and four more (center and right) are currently planned on land that was once owned by the public and (until Urban Renewal regulations were allowed to expire in 2007) set aside for limited development designed to help disadvantaged populations.
