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Suspension Bridges

A pair of pedestrian bridges under construction in Battery Park City and the Financial District appear to be slipping behind schedule. The first of these is the West Thames bridge, which will eventually connect Battery Park City to the Financial District, beside the entrance plaza to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. In the most recent public review...

Welcome to Lower Manhattan

Editor’s Note: When last week’s terror attack unfolded, Benjamin Shapiro, a junior at Stuyvesant High School had moved into the neighborhood just 12 days earlier. He provided the Broadsheet with this account: ‘We moved to one of those fancy-shmancy apartment houses across the street from Stuyvesant 12 days ago. Doesn’t feel that upscale yet, ’cause...

Gill Remembered

James Gill, who chaired the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) from 1996 through 2010, died last weekend, at age 86. He presided over the community during two booms and two busts. In the prosperous years of the late 1990s, he forged ahead with plans to develop still-vacant parcels of land throughout the neighborhood. At the...
James Gill, who chaired the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) from 1996 through 2010, died last weekend, at age 86.

Cha-Ching!

At the Monday meeting of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board, staff members reviewed financial performance for the fiscal year that closes on October 31, and the upcoming 12-month period. For fiscal year 2017, BPCA acting president Benjamin Jones said, “overall revenues are $287.6 million, which is just over 17 million higher than projected....
BPCA acting president Benjamin Jones: "Overall revenues are $287.6 million, which is just over 17 million higher than projected. Excess revenue is estimated to be $189.4 million."

Overlooking the Forest for the Trees

The Municipal Art Society (MAS), a highly regarded non-profit urban planning group that advocates for a more livable city, is sounding the alarm about the increasing proliferation of “super-tall” skyscrapers. The MAS is concerned about a broad range of impacts such buildings will have in every community where they are proposed (chiefly Midtown, Downtown Brooklyn,...
The skyline of Lower Manhattan in 2017, when only a handful of 'super-tall' buildings dotted the landscape.

Setting the Pace

A study that appeared this month in the Chronicle of Higher Education ranks Pace University, in Lower Manhattan, as first in the nation among private four-year institutions for moving students who come from households in the bottom 20 percent of income into the top 20 percent. The study compared the median parent household income for...
Pace University, which is earning plaudits for a soaring academic reputation and an unmatched ability to confer social mobility on students, is also undergoing a $190-million expansion and renovation of its Downtown campus.