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A bill that would require Governor Andrew Cuomo to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to a majority of the seven seats on the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has passed the New York State Assembly with near-unanimous support. On Tuesday, all 139 members of the lower house of the State legislature who were...

The proposed redesign of Wagner Park is drawing both criticism and support from a broad range of Lower Manhattan stakeholders. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1), a spirited exchange between members of that panel and representatives of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) aired a series of...

The most recent tally of new and planned apartment construction in Lower Manhattan projects that more than 8,000 new residents will be joining the local population (already in excess of 60,000) in the next few years. The Residential Development and Population Growth study by the Downtown Alliance for the last quarter of 2016 (the most...

The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to reverse the flow of traffic on multiple streets in the Financial District in order to ease pedestrian and vehicular logjams expected to result from a new construction project on Broad Street, within the New York Stock Exchange security zone. The construction project is a massive new residential...

Community Board 1 (CB1) has formally endorsed a proposal to close half of a seldom-used street in the Financial District, in order to create a pedestrian plaza in front of a new public school that is slated to open in 2022. At the April 25 meeting monthly meeting of CB1, the panel enacted a resolution...

The South Street Seaport Museum will begin a year-long observance of its 50th anniversary tomorrow, Saturday, April 29, with a day of festivities (from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm) that will include free admission to all of the Museum’s exhibits, Street of Ships: The Port and Its People, The Original Gus Wagner. The Maritime Roots...