Solution Sought For Leaning Building
Two months after the city deemed the leaning landmark building at 287 Broadway unsafe to occupy, its residents and small business owners still could not return, and a way to ensure its safety had yet to be approved.
Ball Fields Flipped, Shrunk to Allow for Construction
In a couple of months, hundreds of Downtown Little Leaguers and their parents will return to the Battery Park City ball fields for a new season of play.
Backing for Glass Top on Landmark
After much indecisive back and forth and wrangling over an ambivalent resolution, members of Community Board 1 voted last month in favor of plans to build a four-story glass hotel atop one of the city’s grandest landmarks, the recently renovated 1906 Battery Maritime Building.
CB1 Approves Glass Addition for Battery Maritime Building
After much indecisive back and forth and wrangling over an ambivalent resolution, members of Community Board 1 voted Jan. 15 in favor of plans to build a four-story glass hotel atop one of the city’s grandest landmarks, the recently renovated 1906 Battery Maritime Building.
Residents Rally Against Feared Eatery
When Community Board 1 voted unanimously to recommend a liquor license for a “family-style” restaurant planned for the ground floor of a condominium at 25 North Moore Street last fall, the establishment’s future seemed all but certain.
Silverstein to Build City's Tallest Apartment Tower
Larry Silverstein is putting up the tallest residential building in New York City on Church Street.
Claims of a Breach in City Hall Park Pact
A face-to-face confrontation last month between the Friends of City Hall Park and the Parks Department’s Manhattan Borough Commissioner did little to resolve a long-simmering dispute over the future of City Hall Park.
Construction Crane Snaps on Washington Street
Construction on the 15-story residential building going up at 450 Washington Street came to a crashing halt on the afternoon of Feb. 1 after a massive crane snapped in half, littering the ground with debris and sending workers scurrying for safety.
Students Create Dance that Mimics Life
It almost sounds like a reality TV show: Two teams, each comprised of two modern dance instructors and 20 teenagers with little or no dance experience, have one week to create a choreographed masterpiece. Though there were no TV crews to film it, such were the rules of Battery Dance Company’s new arts education project, entitled “Dancing to Connect.”
Safety Pledged for Deutsche Demolition
Five months after a fire at the former Deutsche Bank building claimed the lives of two firefighters, work on decontaminating and disassembling the building is finally resuming.
"Skinny Hotel" Still Source of Conflict
As neighborhood conflicts go, this one, it seems, knows no end.
Local Residents are Tested in Hopes of Saving a Life
At the newly opened center of the JCP (Jewish Community Project) on Duane Street, activities range from preschool programs to Hebrew classes and potluck dinners. Last month, however, the group turned to a higher cause: Trying to save a life.
Latest Details of WTC Memorial Museum Unveiled
Downtown residents got their first glimpse at the latest designs for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum Jan. 14 when director Alice Greenwald presented architectural plans and conceptual renderings to a committee of Community Board 1.
A Preview of Designs to Remember
Downtown residents got their first glimpse of the latest designs for the World Trade Center Memorial Museum last month when director Alice Greenwald presented architectural plans and conceptual renderings to a committee of Community Board 1.
Earplugs are the New Amenity at the Millenium Hotel
Visiting New York from London last month, James Hertford was counting on a good night’s sleep before a busy round of business meetings the next day.
Pete Hamill Recalls His Storied Downtown
As Pete Hamill stood before an adoring audience packed into the magnificently restored Broad Street Ballroom one rainy evening last month, the painted images of two towering commercial ships from early last century rose behind him like the ghosts of New York’s past. It was a fitting backdrop to the enlightening, funny, sometimes elegiac history of Downtown that the 71-year-old novelist, essayist, and seasoned journalist was there to tell about his native city.
Park Trust Keeps Pier 40 Fate Hanging in the Air
It was expected to be the final and long anticipated showdown over the future of Pier 40, with community activists vying with corporate developers over the future of the pier and its ball fields, one of few places for Downtown children to play sports.
Port Authority Criticized Over WTC Noise
Neighbors of the World Trade Center site may have been pleased with news that the Port Authority will be taking steps to reduce the noise coming from the nearby construction, but when representatives of the Port Authority appeared before Community Board 1’s World Trade Center Redevelopment Committee Jan. 14, they mostly heard complaints.
Parents Jam Preschool Fair for Information
For hundreds of Downtown parents, the time is fast approaching to wrench themselves from the arms of their two-year-olds and enroll them, for at least a few hours a day, in preschool. But which one?
Vacated Building Means the End of an Income
Preservationists worry about the listing landmark at 287 Broadway. Bloggers—quick to point out that the city’s new “Tower of Pisa” is across the street from the Department of Buildings—revel in it. But for Luis Guaman, 46, it’s personal. The fate of the building may well determine his own.
Subterranean 'Tank' Hosts New Music
On a recent Thursday night, a handful of musicians and video artists were milling around the Tank, a small basement performance space at 279 Church St. A loose collective of experimental electronic musicians plugged in their equipment and ran sound checks, while visual artists cued up layered and distorted clips from breakdancing films, ballet footage, and grindhouse movies.
CB1 Support For Park Toilet Site Follows Months of Indecision
For the third time in three months, Bob Redmond, the Parks Department’s director of capital projects, had appeared before CB1’s Tribeca Committee with maps, outdoor toilet renderings, and his agency’s arguments for putting the facility in the park’s northwest corner, next to the community gardens. And again he found himself confronted by some who worked those gardens and opposed him.
Stringin' Along
When Patrick Cuartero walked into the lunchroom at P.S. 234 one recent afternoon, the response was deafening. “Pat! Pat’s here!” screamed a dozen 4th and 5th graders, their words echoing off the walls as they rushed to be the first to get his attention.