Tag: Local

Contrails of jet airplanes turn into clouds because of the unburnt particles of jet fuel. They are known as aerosols or ice nuclei. The minute carbon particles freeze at the -72°F temperatures at 30,000 ft. +. They then attract any moisture at that level and freeze into ice crystals. If there is not enough moisture...

Lower Manhattan remains a preferred address for multiple kinds of business, as well as for New Yorkers seeking a place to live, according to a new analysis from the Downtown Alliance. The Lower Manhattan Real Estate Market Report for the third quarter of this year shows that the FIRE sector (comprised of firms focused on...

Community Board 1 (CB1) is pushing for a study by the City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) of traffic at the intersection in northern Battery Park City, as a preliminary step toward having traffic control measures (such as a stop sign or traffic light) installed there. “We’re asking for a traffic control study at the intersection...

Everyone knows Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building. But not everyone knows it’s the last of three Lower Manhattan office buildings he designed between 1900 and 1912. Seen together, they reveal the rapid advance in the structural and architectural development of the New York office building. With Gilbert’s two earlier buildings, we can see him working through...

Today (Tuesday, November 13), concerned parents, community leaders, and local elected officials — including City Council member Margaret Chin, State Assembly member Deborah Glick, and State Senator Brian Kavanagh — will lead a rally to protest the planned closure of P.S. 150, an award-winning local elementary school that has educated generations of Downtown kids. The...

In dissonant contrast with today’s observance of Veteran’s Day, Community Board 1 (CB1) recently grappled with the question of whether an intersection in Tribeca should be named in honor of James D. McNaughton, who, on August 2, 2005, at age 27, became the first New York City Police officer to be killed in action while...