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The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has decided to reverse a longstanding practice and allow public comment at its board meetings. At the Authority’s Wednesday board meeting, BPCA chairman and chief executive officer Dennis Mehiel noted that, “we’ve had requests for the opportunity for the public to comment at our meetings. The meetings are always...

The oldest Methodist congregation in North America has the newest stained glass window in New York. The John Street United Methodist Church, which traces its roots back to 1766, is celebrating the restoration of its Asbury Stained Glass Window (as well as the 250th anniversary of the church itself) with a fund raiser tomorrow (Thursday,...

In the recent primary election that determined the Democratic nominee for the Assembly seat representing the 65th District in Lower Manhattan, the combined neighborhoods of the South Street Seaport and the Civic Center voted in a manner that was mostly at odds with the catchment as a whole. The September 13 primary race was won...

The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) passed a resolution at its October 5 meeting, calling upon the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to halt its ongoing initiative to consider a possible redesign of South end Avenue. The boards of six condominium apartment buildings have also enacted resolutions calling for a similar...

“This is about how you tell the story of a neighborhood,” reflects, Abby Suckle, president of CultureNOW. “And Lower Manhattan is all about history.” This is how Ms. Suckle describes the vision behind an extraordinary new local atlas, the “Lower Manhattan: Then and NOW” map.” Ms. Suckle, an architect whose contribution to the Downtown streetscape...

(Editor’s Note: This is the second 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 the Financial District.) In the Financial District, according...