“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival,” John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, in the summer of 1776 about the day he had just ...

Community Board 1 Seeks Limits on Open-Air Parcel Transfer Sites The City’s Department of Transportation is developing a pilot program to establish multiple micro-delivery hubs in Lower Manhattan – ...

Expanded Field House Will Feature Parent-and-Child Restrooms and Green Roof The Battery Conservancy, in partnership with the City’s Department of Parks and Recreation, is planning a new Field House ...

Subterranean Artery-Hardening Saves Time and Money An innovative engineering method that rehabilitates deteriorating subterranean walls without the need for expensive and disruptive excavation at ...

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Converted Office Building in FiDi A City-sponsored drawing has opened for affordable dwellings in an erstwhile office building, newly converted to apartments, at ...

Your Share of Space Downtown May Soon Come to 403 Square Feet As more conversions of obsolete office buildings in Lower Manhattan to residential use are announced, the number of new homes that may be ...

Local Officials Blast Panel for Preventing Votes on Hot-Button Issues A coalition of elected officials representing Lower Manhattan has written to Melissa Avilés-Ramos, Chancellor of the City’s ...

Lee Pushes Renewal of Downtown Tax Incentives In the closing days of the Albany legislative session, State Assembly member Grace Lee led a successful charge to renew a tax credit that aims to spur ...

Further Reductions in Speed Limits Planned for Lower Manhattan The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT), which cut speed limits on local streets in Lower Manhattan in 2024, plans to reduce them ...

Dispute Among Battery Ticket Vendors Leads to Stabbing In the latest outbreak of intermittent violence that stretches back almost a decade, a ticket hawker at the Battery, selling boat rides around ...

More Than Two Acres of Public Space Returned to Lower Manhattan The ongoing project to return more than a dozen acres of parkland to public use alongside the Brooklyn Bridge took a giant leap forward ...

Outdoor Lunchfest and Concert Series Enliven Downtown Streetscape On Wednesday, June 11, the Downtown Alliance will host a Lower Manhattan lunchtime tradition, Dine Around Downtown, on the open-air ...