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President Donald Trump now says of his tax returns, “I might release them after I’m out of office,” but the public may not have to wait that long if State Senator Daniel Squadron has his way. In April, Mr. Squadron introduced a bill, now pending in the State Senate, which would require the New York...

The Downtown Alliance has released its analysis of real estate activity in Lower Manhattan for the first quarter of 2017, and most indicators point to a very remunerative place to own property and a rather congested place to live or work. For those of us who live here, the cost of doing so is climbing...

A pair of Lower Manhattan building projects have been recognized with 2017 Excellence in Development awards from the Urban Land Institute of New York (ULINY), a non-profit that seeks to promote, “the responsible use of land and in the creation of sustainable, thriving communities.” The ULINY awards are unusual in that they focus on all...

The decade-long effort to refurbish the historic Battery Maritime Building remains stalled, as a second developer has been removed from the project, after failing to begin work on the development. The City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) — the agency that negotiates strategic partnerships designed to harness private-sector resources to public projects, and thus foster economic...

An analysis of Lower Manhattan neighborhoods, parsed by data about personal income and indebtedness, yields two insights. First, people who live Downtown are doing very well financially. Second, they are in hock up to their eyeballs. This information comes from LendEDU.com (pronounced “Lend-E-D-U”), an online marketplace for student loan refinancing, which functions a bit like...

On Saturday, April 29th, South Street Seaport Museum supporters, volunteers, sponsors and founders gathered as Captain Jonathan Boulware, executive director, kicked off a year of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the museum’s founding. Behind him was Lightship AMBROSE, an artifact of New York maritime history, bobbing in the East River waves with its...