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(Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series that will seek insights about life in Lower Manhattan by looking at data and statistics available from the City’s Data2Go.NYC website. This installment focuses on crime.) Here’s a new flash that will shock no one: Violent crime is vanishingly rare in Lower Manhattan. Within Community...

For all its embrace of diversity, there is one population that is vanishingly scarce in Lower Manhattan: active duty U.S. military personnel. “There are probably about five of us,” reflects the U.S. Army’s Lieutenant Colonel Marci Miller, who lives in Battery Park City. “I know there are a few Coast Guard officers on active duty,...

PortSide NewYork, is a community of people on one part of New York harbor’s waterfront, and the dream of one woman, Carolina Salguero to keep local maritime history alive. She does that through her work on the Mary A. Whalen, a small oil tanker built and launched in Camden, New Jersey in 1938 for Ira...

The managing boards of a dozen condominium buildings in Battery Park City have now passed resolutions calling upon the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to halt its ongoing initiative to consider a possible redesign of South End Avenue. The scope of this project was recently narrowed, when the BPCA announced that it was no longer...

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host an “Open Community Meeting” tonight (Wednesday, November 9), from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). Residents are urged to attend, hear a presentation from Authority staff on their vision for the community, and...

The old man used to say, “facing a disaster with people who are at their best in the worst of times is far better than sitting down to a feast with people who are at their worst in the best of times.” If we are now to be led by somebody who evinces every sign...