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October 20, 2016

Can You Hear Me Now?

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...
State Senator Daniel Squadron (right) and Battery Park City Authority chairman Dennis Mehiel (left), shown here at the Authority's September board meeting, discuss Squadron's months-long push to allow public comment at BPCA board meetings. That quest bore fruit on Wednesday, as the agency announced a policy that will permit residents to speak directly to the board of the agency that governs the community.
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October 19, 2016

A Methodical Approach

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,...
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October 18, 2016

How Lower Manhattan Voted: The Seaport and Civic Center

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...
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October 17, 2016

Street Fight

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...
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October 14, 2016

Time Lapse Cartography

“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...
CultureNow president Abby Suckle presents the organization's new mash-up map of Lower Manhattan's history to Community Board 1 in September.
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October 13, 2016

How Lower Manhattan Voted: The Financial District

(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...
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