The developers of the new super-tall residential tower at the corner of Greenwich and Thames Streets in the Financial District are hinting (but not confirming) that the building will top out at more than 1,000 feet. This would make it taller than the adjacent Four World Trade Center (at 150 Greenwich Street), which tops out...
The condominium tower proposed for 125 Greenwich Street_ shown at center (with the glowing rooftop) was once slated to rise nearly as high as One World Trade Center, then scaled back by almost 40 percent to a height of 841 feet. But based on this rendering, recently circulated by the project's architect, the building has grown again by several hundred feet, to make it nearly as tall as Four World Trade Center(shown here to the right of - and partially obscured by - One World Trade Center, and left of 125 Greenwich).
Two more pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place for the long-planned Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center: the project now has a chairperson and a design. The former will be Barbra Streisand and the latter is a breathtaking, translucent marble cube by Brooklyn-based architectural firm, REX. These announcements come on the...
The design by architectural firm REX calls for the cube-shaped Performing Arts Center to be clad in translucent white marble, that will allow natural light to filter through the walls of the windowless building (shown here looking north, with One World Trade Center on the left, and Seven World Trade Center in the center background).
Two more pieces of the puzzle have fallen into place for the long-planned Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center: the project now has a chairperson and a design. The former will be Barbra Streisand and the latter is a breathtaking, translucent marble cube by Brooklyn-based architectural firm, REX. These announcements come on the...
The design by architectural firm REX calls for the cube-shaped Performing Arts Center to be clad in translucent white marble, that will allow natural light to filter through the walls of the windowless building (shown here looking north, with One World Trade Center on the left, and Seven World Trade Center in the center background).
The local non-profit that provides Lower Manhattan with after-school programs, summer camps, athletic leagues, classes for seniors, indoor and outdoor recreation space, swimming lessons, arts enrichment and more is marking 30 years of service. On Saturday (September 24), Manhattan Youth will host a Birthday Beach Party on Pier 25, in the Hudson River Park, near...
Helaina Hovitz was a 12-year-old middle school student attending I.S. 289 on September 11th, 2001. The events and experiences that are part of collective memory for Lower Manhattan residents were a very real part of Helaina’s life, and are still vivid in her memory today: the sickening thud of falling bodies hitting cars, the crumbling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAD-shh2sE&feature=youtu.be State Senator Daniel Squadron took the floor at Tuesday’s meeting of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board to push once again for residents of the community to be allowed to speak at meetings where decisions about their futures are made. This is the second consecutive meeting of the BPCA board at which Senator...
State Senator Daniel Squadron, makes the case for public comment at BPCA board meetings while Authority chairman Dennis Mehiel looks on.
