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The Mural of the Story

Tribeca, which was put on the map by its allure for artists, has a new public art piece. “XOLA,” a gigantic street mural by artist Imani Shanklin Roberts, was painted last weekend over a 2,000 square-foot patch of Franklin Street that is closed to vehicular traffic, and formally unveiled on Wednesday. Ms. Shanklin-Roberts’s mural is...
XOLA in Tribeca photos by Eric M. Townsend

Thin Win for Chin

City Council member Margaret Chin appears to have won her bid for a third term, but just barely. Unofficial, overnight results from the City’s Board of Elections (BOE) showed Ms. Chin clinging to a razor-thin margin of 200 votes over her nearest challenger, Christoper Marte. As of midnight, with the BOE reporting that 98.84 percent...

Foldenauer: Close Loopholes, Make Real-Estate Carpetbaggers Pay Their Fair Share, and Link Development to New Schools

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday (September 12), the Democratic primary will effectively decide who will represent Lower Manhattan in the City Council for the coming four years. (Although the general election is in November, the heavily “blue” landscape of Lower Manhattan usually makes the nomination of the Democratic party tantamount to winning the wider contest, and...

Marte: Participatory Budgeting, Historic Preservation, Support for Small Businesses, and a City Takeover of Battery Park City

Editor’s Note: On Tuesday (September 12), the Democratic primary will effectively decide who will represent Lower Manhattan in the City Council for the coming four years. (Although the general election is in November, the heavily “blue” landscape of Lower Manhattan usually makes the nomination of the Democratic party tantamount to winning the wider contest, and...
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.

September 11th, 16 Years Ago

September 11, 2001. Most mornings, I wake up and usually head up to my studio to paint. On the morning of September 11th, I was working on a painting in my studio located on the third floor of the mansion in Columbia, Pennsylvania where I live and work and operate  a bed and breakfast. The...
The Emblem of Strength—New York City

Excellence and Ambivalence

Pupils at six Lower Manhattan public elementary schools are recording stellar scores on their fourth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) exams, putting each of their schools in the top ten percent of all public schools City-wide. According to an analysis by Tom Goodkind — a member of Community Board 1 (CB1), who has been compiling statistics...