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Valediction: Catherine McVay Hughes

For more than a decade, residents of Lower Manhattan have benefited from the protection, advocacy, and vision of a staunch civic champion. During that time, Catherine McVay Hughes has served not only as chair of Community Board 1 (CB1), but has also lobbied relentlessly for programs to protect the health of Downtown residents affected by...
Catherine McVay Hughes

Battery Plans for a Jungle Gym, Literally

Forty-eight hours after the historic park at Manhattan’s southern tip celebrated the much-anticipated opening of the Battery Oval, a magnificent, two-acre lawn, Warrie Price, the president of the Battery Conservancy was unveiling the planned, next phase of the park’s ongoing renaissance. “I’m here tonight to talk about the Battery PlayScape, which you will be voting...
An architect's illustration of the Imagination Marsh section, which will contain a village of small houses at the level of the treetop canopy.

PAC Benefaction

The proposed Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (PACWTC) that was promised to the Lower Manhattan community more than a decade ago took one giant step and one baby step toward becoming a reality. The giant step came on Wednesday, when the organization’s leadership team announced that billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist Ronald...
A preliminary sketch (now superseded by subsequent designs) for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center.

Where History Is Recalled By Those Who Participated

The 9/11 Tribute Center plans to move from its current headquarters, adjacent to the World Trade Center, to a larger space in the Greenwich South section of the Financial District. The move is necessitated by the growth in the Tribute Center’s exhibits and programs, as well as its swelling roster of visitors. The Tribute Center...
The current home of the 9/11 Tribute Center, at 120 Liberty Street, has served the organization since the facility opened in 2006, but growing programs and a burgeoning tally of visitors have made it necessary for the organization to find a larger headquarters.

Lower Manhattan Has a New High Line

Lower Manhattan’s inventory of uplifting public spaces will increase by one today at 11:45 am, when the new Liberty Park is dedicated and opened. The elevated, one-acre green space (bordered by Liberty, West, Cedar and Greenwich Streets) will connect Battery Park City with the World Trade Center site and the Financial District, spanning a 300-foot...
An aerial view of the elevated Liberty Park as it neared completion in recent weeks.

The Job Market

Downtown ranks dead last among all communities in the five boroughs for the percentage of unemployed residents, according to the City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the tally of locals who can’t find work may get even smaller tomorrow (Wednesday, June 29), when a job fair at the Conrad New York Hotel (102...