Tag: Local

Tragedy in Tribeca

Shortly after 7:00 am on Saturday, December 29, a driver moving northbound along West Street at speeds prosecutors now estimate to have been in excess of 90 miles per hour slammed into another vehicle at West Street at Laight Street, flipping it over, causing it to burst into flames, and killing the woman inside. The...
The scene at West and Laight Streets on the morning of December 29

Home for the Holidays

Gilbert Chesterton said that, “Christmas is built on a beautiful and intentional paradox — that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.” In an odd way, this restless longing to get home, or to find a place in the world to call home, is perhaps at the bottom of Christmas. Robert...

Leader of the PAC

The much-anticipated Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC) at the World Trade Center has passed several new milestones on the road from vision to completion in recent days. Last week, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) allocated an additional $89 million to cover construction costs for the project. At the December 13 meeting of the LMDC’s...
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (shown here in an architect's rendering) was recently given an $89-million grant by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. Now under construction at the World Trade Center site, the project is expected to open in 2021.

Lower Manhattan Suffers from Deficit of Saks Appeal

Two years after opening amid much fanfare, Saks Fifth Avenue is pulling the plug on its three-level, 86,000-square-foot women’s store in Brookfield Place. The space, at 225 Liberty Street, was extensively remodeled in 2015 and 2016 to accommodate Saks, which was billed as the anchor retail tenant that would lead the transformation of the shopping...
The 225 Liberty Street lobby after being privatized for Saks, which recently announced that it will close in January

Lower Manhattan Activists Aim to Bury the Tombs Plan

Although the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has backed away from its controversial proposal to build a new, 40-story jail on top of a historic government office building at 80 Centre Street, it still aims to bring more prison capacity to Lower Manhattan. The revised iteration of this plan is to expand the Manhattan...
The Manhattan Detention Complex (colloquially known as "the Tombs") located at White and Centre Streets, may become the site for a new jail, more than 50 stories tall, with triple the interior space of the current facility.

The Deal of the Sentry

The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has extended for one year its contract with Allied Universal, the firm that provides security guards (known as “safety ambassadors”) to the community. The original agreement, signed in November, 2015, provided for three years of such service (at a cost of $2.1 million per year), and was set to...