Tag: Featured

Changing of the Guard

At the October 2 annual meeting of the Gateway Plaza Tenants Association (GPTA), more than 200 residents of Battery Park City’s largest rental complex gathered in St. Joseph’s Chapel, overlooking North Cover Marina, to discuss issues of common concern and elect leaders who will represent them at a crucial juncture in the development’s history. Three...
Glenn Plaskin: "I feel it's the right time for me to pass the baton, effective immediately."

Can Million-Dollar Condos Salve Urban Blight?

Two Brooklyn-based affordable housing advocacy groups are pushing to revive a 2014 plan by City Comptroller Scott Stronger to earmark surplus funds from the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) for upgrades in the crumbling apartments blocks operated by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) for the poorest New Yorkers. At a Monday rally in...
Reverend David K. Brawley: "We are ready for a fight, to fight for the soul of the city."

Needful Things

At its Tuesday meeting, the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) discussed a range of neighborhood priorities for possible inclusion in the Board’s annual “district needs statement.” This list of local goals, which every Community Board asks the City government to focus on each year, serves as a policy guide for the...

The Campaign Continues…

Christopher Marte, an erstwhile challenger to incumbent Margaret Chin for the Democratic Party nomination to represent Lower Manhattan in the City Council, has announced that he will continue to be a candidate for the office, running in the general election under the banner of the Independence Party. Mr. Marte was Ms. Chin’s closest rival in...
Challenger Christopher Marte, running on the Independence Party line, captured 37 percent of the vote, which amounts to an unusually strong showing for a third-party candidate in Lower Manhattan.

Uncivil Service

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced the arrest on Tuesday of more than 30 suspects in a ring that prosecutors allege counterfeited and sold fraudulent City government parking placards, which were used chiefly in Lower Manhattan. According to a summary from the City’s Department of Investigation (DOI), the case begin in March of this...
Prosecutors have shut down a ring that allegedly counterfeited and sold City-government parking credentials, which were primarily used in Lower Manhattan.

Pop-Up (and Down)

A Danish urban-planning firm is proposing a radically innovative solution to a pair of problems that plague Lower Manhattan: vulnerability to extreme weather events, and a chronic shortage of parking. Copenhagen-based architects Tredje Natur (which translates as “Third Nature”) wants to create in St. John’s Park — the four-acre, circular green space enclosed by the...
A cutaway view of the parking garage and park proposed for the Holland Tunnel Rotary, in Tribeca.