Community Board 1 (CB1) will host a Town Hall meeting tonight (Monday, December 4) to discuss the impact of plans to create an event and performance venue capable of hosting more than 4,000 people on the roof of Pier 17, in the South Street Seaport. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be...
After the City's Landmarks Preservation Commission declined to approve the 2015 plan, HHC in 2017 created a new vision for a "temporary" canopy that could be raised and expanded during events, then lowered and folded into itself when not being used. By this time, plans the concert venue had grown to a space that can accommodate more than 6,000 people.
On Thursday, for only the fourth time in its century-long existence, the Regional Plan Association (RPA) — an independent, not-for-profit confederation of urban visionaries — issued a call to action for guiding development over the next two decades in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Fourth Regional Plan contains dozens of recommendations about sustainability,...
A conceptual rendering of the RPA's "Manhattan Spine" proposal_ in which the dark orange line represents a new commuter rail trunk, running the length of Manhattan (beneath Third Avenue, the Bowery, and Pearl Street) before connecting to the Long Island Rail Road in Brooklyn, and the Metro North Railroad in Westchester.
Jon Hendricks, the legendary jazz lyricist and singer and one of the earliest residents of Battery Park City, died on November 24. He was 96. Acknowleged as one of the originators of “vocalese,” which adds lyrics to instrumental tunes and replaces instruments with voices, he was also praised as one of the most accomplished practitioners...
Jon Hendricks, "Poet Laureate of Jazz," in 2016 at Gateway Plaza
What the long-promised proposed T train (which is slated someday to run from 125th Street, down Second Avenue, to Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan) is for the rest of New York, the similarly ambitious and wistful notion of a direct rail connection between the World Trade Center and Newark Airport is for Downtown residents. The...
Seen from Newark Airport, the skyline of Lower Manhattan appears almost close enough to touch. But antiquated transportation infrastructure makes the trip to the skyscrapers on the horizon, in some cases, longer than the flights from which travelers arriving at the airport have just disembarked.
The City Council recently enacted a new law that strengthens enforcement over “privately owned public spaces” (POPS), in response to an April report from City Comptroller Scott Stringer, which found that of 51 POPS located in Lower Manhattan, only eight were meeting legally required standards for public access, hours, or the availability of amenities such...
A sign that adorns every entrance to 101 Barclay warns members of the public that they are not welcome. This sign remains in place despite a new law that specifically requires compliance with promises of amenities in "privately owned public spaces."
Evacuation Day is New York City’s most famous celebration you’ve never heard of. While November 25, 1783, marks a significant moment in American history, Evacuation Day never reached national prominence. And while New York embraced it with great enthusiasm-parades, flotillas, fireworks-for more than seventy years, that’s not surprising since it was New York that was...
General George Washington and Governor George Clinton (symbols of military and civilian authority) pass St. Paul's chapel, which miraculously survived the fire of 1776 that destroyed Trinity Church and many buildings west of Broadway. The general would return to worship here as president six years later.
