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Photojournalist B.A. Van Sise spent the past year photographing 31 Holocaust survivors who are part of the Museum’s Speakers Bureau and Gallery Educators. Eyewitness brings Holocaust survivors into the community with the Museum’s first public art installation. The second phase of monumental installation, Eyewitness by photojournalist B.A. Van Sise was unveiled at the Museum of...

Coming off a wave of recent facility upgrades and already planning for more, the P3 Baseball program at Pier 40, “wants to be known as premier baseball and softball facility in Manhattan and beyond,” says Bob Score, a onetime board member (and now the facility manager) with the organization, who spearheaded the campaign to improve...

Spotted on the plaza at North Cove last week is the classic, 1920s yacht tender “Breeze.” At the turn of the past century, the world famous yacht designer Nathaniel Herreshoff, provided these beautiful rowing boats as tenders to his large yacht clients. They were light weight rowboats designed for two persons to go ashore or...

Anthony Notaro, the chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), has issued a candid warning that area residents may wish to keep in mind heading into tomorrow night’s public meeting of the Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) project. At the May 2 meeting of CB1’s Battery Park City Committee, during a discussion of measures planned by...

The Downtown Alliance on Monday honored six Lower Manhattan civic leaders with its Exceptional Service Award, which recognizes local luminaries for their contributions to quality of life Downtown. This year’s recipients include the New York Police Department’s Deputy Inspector Mark Iocco and Sergeant Dennis Feldman, both assigned to the First Precinct, in Tribeca. NYPD Deputy...

On Thursday (May 18), Marshalls is slated to open a 65,000 square foot store in the former Verizon building, on the block bounded by Vesey, Washington, Barclay, and West Streets. The entrance to the new store will be at 206 Washington Street (the corner of Vesey and Washington). This appears to be a contrarian bet...