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A coalition of six elected officials representing Lower Manhattan are urging the City’s Transportation Commissioner to undertake a study of how vehicles and pedestrians move around Lower Manhattan, to address issues related to safety, sanitation and crowding. In a February 14 letter to Polly Trottenberg, who heads the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT), U.S. Congressman...

When asked to reflect on the Lion’s Head, the legendary West Village tavern, newspaperman Pete Hamill once disputed its reputation as a bar for writers with drinking problems, insisting instead that, “it’s a bar for drinkers with writing problems.” Something similar might be said for Pen Parentis, the Lower Manhattan-based, literary nonprofit that is not...

The Downtown Alliance has created an interactive, three-dimensional map of Lower Manhattan that zooms, swoops, pivots, and performs other visual acrobatics, while also searching through multiple data sets, such as residential, office, and hotel properties, as well as restaurants, retailers, transit facilities, cultural institutions, and parks. This convergence of information and imagery, known as LM3D...

The gold rush in Lower Manhattan real estate continues to make fortunes for those invest here, but much less of a difference in the lives of people who live or work here. The most recent case in point is the Courtyard New York Marriott Downtown, at 133 Greenwich Street (near the corner with Thames Street),...

Multiple bridges and at least one tunnel that carry thousands of vehicles each day in Lower Manhattan are classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete by the federal government’s Department of Transportation (DOT). Among these are one leading into the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, two ramps serving the Brooklyn Bridge, and the viaduct that carries the FDR...

Just under half of all the super-tall buildings completed in the United States in 2016 were erected in Lower Manhattan, according to a new report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The non-profit organization, which is the leading expert on tall structures, defines “super-tall” as any building that reaches a height...