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Developer Scores $95 Million Benefit in Exchange for Two Subway Elevators

The City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved the request by a real estate developer to build two futuristic-looking subway elevator sheds in the middle of a Lower Manhattan historic district, in exchange for which a new skyscraper planned for nearby will be allowed to build 70,000 extra square feet of interior space. This decision...
An architect's rendering of the subway elevator cube proposed for the east side of Broad Street, at Exchange Place. This structure, and its twin, located across the street, will be approximately 100 square feet.

Lower Manhattan Throbs with Gobs of Jobs

There are more than 5,100 new people working in Lower Manhattan, compared to this time last year, and another 10,000 are on the way, according to a new report from the Downtown Alliance. The group’s Lower Manhattan Real Estate Market Overview for the second quarter of 2016 reckons the total number of jobs in the...

Mangiamo!

Lower Manhattan’s transformation from culinary desert into a foodie Shangri-La is taking a giant step forward with the opening this week of Eataly, the high-end Mediterranean market that gained fame on West 23rd Street as a culinary version of Disney World. The company is debuting a 40,000-square foot outpost (also containing multiple sit-down restaurants) on...

Imagining a New South End Avenue

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) will host the second of two Concept Development Open House meetings tonight (Monday, August 1), to share preliminary ideas about how to reconfigure the streetscapes on South End Avenue and West Thames Street, and to solicit feedback from the residents. The session will take place at Six River Terrance...

Libations, Exertion, and Socialization

The debut of one new venue for eating and drinking, plus two free events will round out this weekend in Lower Manhattan. City Vineyards, the new outpost of City Winery located in the Hudson River Park on Pier 26 (near North Moore Street) fully opens tonight, after a “soft” debut in the middle of the...

Cashing In on the Disabled

Community Board 1 (CB1) is taking a stand against attempts by two real estate developers to make a pair of Lower Manhattan properties more lucrative, under the guise of complying with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Because both buildings are regulated by varying forms of landmarks protection, neither modification can be built...
An architect's rendering of the subway elevator cube proposed for the east side of Broad Street, at Exchange Place. This structure, and its twin, located across the street, will be approximately 100 square feet.