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How Lower Manhattan Voted: Battery Park City

(Editor’s Note: This is the first 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 Battery Park City.) The 65th Assembly District stretches...

Mecca for Millennials

If walking the streets of Lower Manhattan makes you feel a tad ancient these days, it’s not your imagination. The square mile below Chambers Street is now home to more than 21,000 millennials (people aged between 18 and 34), and the median age among all Lower Manhattan residents is 32 years old, according to a...

Doing Good While Doing Well

The owners of 28 Liberty Street (formerly known as Chase Manhattan Plaza) are donating office space worth as much as $1.7 million to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), to support “Workspace,” its nine-month studio residency program. The donation consists of 35,000 square feet of office space on the building’s 24th floor. With offices near...

Flood of Ideas, Dearth of Dollars

The City government agency that will decide how and when to storm-proof Lower Manhattan will host an Open House meeting in Battery Park City tonight (October 6), starting at 6pm, in the event space at Six River Terrace (opposite the Irish Hunger Memorial and next to Le Pain Quotidien restaurant). “We have the Lower Manhattan...
A menu of options prepared by the staff of the Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency, which will lead tonight's meeting.

Happy 95th Birthday Jon Hendricks

Legendary Jazz lyricist and singer Jon Hendricks recently celebrated his 95th birthday at the Iridium Jazz Club in midtown with his daughters Aria and Michelle on stage and a few hundred fans in the audience. Jon is considered one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments...
Jon Hendrick, the Poet Laureate of Jazz

The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

The Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will meet this evening (Wednesday, October 5) to consider a resolution opposing the recent initiative by the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) to formulate options for reconfiguring South End Avenue. All interested members of the public are invited to attend and offer their opinions at...
Ninfa Segarra, chair of CB1's Battery Park City Committee' invites public input on an initiative to revamp South End Avenue. At tonight's meeting; the public are also asked to weigh in, before the Committee votes on a resolution about this plan.