The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has decided against enclosing the arcades along South End Avenue to create new retail space. At Tuesday night’s meeting of Community Board 1 (CB1), Gwen Dawson, the Authority’s vice president for real property, said, “as a result of the feedback process to date, we’ve heard substantial concern about filling...
Trinity Church has unveiled plans for the new building that it asked Lower Manhattan residents to help design, in a series of “community conversations” that began in February, 2015. “We began with a public process to understand the hopes and dreams of our community,” explained Trinity’s rector, the Rev. Dr. Bill Lupfer, at the final...
This view of the new building from the Trinity Place side shows the existing pedestrian bridge that will connect the structure to Trinity Church.
At its full monthly meeting this evening, Community Board 1 (CB1) will weigh a resolution, ratified by the panel’s Battery Park City Committee earlier in October, calling for a halt to a recent project by the Battery Park City Authority (BCPA) to study scenarios under which South End Avenue could be redesigned. In a separate...
(Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in an occasional series examining voting patterns in the recent Democratic Party primary election, which determined the nominee for the 65th Assembly District seat. Each installment in this series will look at a separate Lower Manhattan neighborhood. This installment focuses on Chinatown and Little Italy.) In the recent primary...
The City Board of Election's official map of the 31st Election District designates a footprint one half a block long from north to south, and considerably less than that distance from east to west. State Board of elections records indicate that only one voter is registered in this minuscule Election District, but almost three percent of all the votes cast in the communities of Chinatown and Little Italy were nonetheless recorded here.
Tomorrow (Saturday, October 22), Trinity Church will unveil the results of its unprecedented experiment in radically inclusive dialog about the structure it plans to build at 74 Trinity Place. The process began in February, 2015, when it invited the Lower Manhattan community to help determine the form and use of a new skyscraper it will...
A preliminary design by architectural firm Clarke Pelli Clarke for the new mixed-use tower that Trinity Church plans to erect behind it historic sanctuary.
Let’s face it: Alexander Hamilton is having his moment. The rest of the world knows two things about the Renaissance Man of the American Revolution, one old and one new: that he was killed in a duel with that era’s archetypal loathsome toad, Aaron Burr, and is now the subject of a brilliant Broadway musical....
The New York Clearing House building at 77 Cedar Street, depicted here in a print that will be displayed at the Wall Street Collector's Bourse, was where banks settled accounts with each other every day, and was part of the banking system that Alexander Hamilton helped to create.
