The new public school planned for 42 Trinity Place, in the Financial District, is now likely to open up to three years behind its originally proposed schedule, according to a discussion at the March meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1). “Demolition started in February, 2016 and they expect that part to wrap up this summer,”...
A schematic diagram illustrating the placement of the apartments, the school, and the retail spaces within the new building.
North Cove Sailing, the new entity that will offer community programs at North Cove Marina this year, previewed its options at the Tuesday meeting of Community Board 1’s Battery Park City Committee. “This won’t be just a sailing school,” said Meg Reilly, North Cove Sailing’s director, “but also a community center and a club. Our...
Community Board 1 (CB1) is taking exception to a newly abbreviated process at the City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), which sometimes pushes developers’ proposals through the approval process before local leaders have had a chance to comment. This appears to have been the case with the building planned for 14 White Street, a long-vacant triangular...
The building proposed for 14 White Street (in the midst of the Tribeca East Historic District) drew qualified praise - but also some requests for changes - from CB1's Landmarks Committee. All of these comments were ignored by the City's Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Community Board 1 (CB1) has endorsed a bill now under consideration in the State Senate that would require Governor to appoint Lower Manhattan residents to the board of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA). Currently, only one of that agency’s seven board seats is held by a resident of the community, Martha Gallo. At the...
Ninfa Segarra: "The BPCA is our government. So we're asking for representation in our government. Because we're not really governed by the City Council or the Mayor. We're governed by BPCA in our day-to-day lives."
The backers of the proposed East River Skyway are expanding their plan to include a phase that would connect Battery Park with Governors Island, and Red Hook, Brooklyn. The project is the brainchild of Daniel Levy, president of the CityRealty website, who first proposed in mid-2016 to build a cablecar network with large gondolas that...
An artist's rendering of the first phase of the East River Skyway proposal, which could whisk commuters from Williamsburg to the Lower East Side in as little as five minutes.
The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS), which oversees the operation of the City’s Business Improvements Districts (BIDs), has completed a report that sheds light on the work of the Downtown Alliance, which covers Lower Manhattan, roughly between between City Hall and the Battery, from the East River to West Street. A...
