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Bureaucrats Equivocate While Tens of Millions That Could Fund Downtown Affordable Housing Remain in Limbo Lower Manhattan community leaders are pushing to allocate federal funds left over from the rebuilding of the community after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to additional affordable homes in the residential tower planned for Five World Trade Center. In the wake of September 11 ...

Downtown Alliance, Trinity Church, and Bowery Residents’ Committee Shepherd Local Unsheltered Persons into Housing A partnership between the Downtown Alliance, Trinity Church, and the Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) has succeeded in moving 130 unsheltered people off Lower Manhattan streets in the first ten months of this year. Although the Alliance has provided homeless outreach services ...

City Plan to Lease Office Space Without Competitive Bidding is Paused After Community Board 1 (CB1) raised ethical concerns about a City plan to lease 80,000 square feet of office space in the Financial District for a municipal agency, the Adams administration has delayed the project. The original proposal sought to rent 80,000 square feet across three …

Jan 31, 2025 · Local Schools Panel Rejects Push to Offer Elite Admissions Exam in Multiple Languages The Community Education Council (CEC) for District 2 of the New York City public school system has voted to reject a proposal that would have called upon the City’s Department of Education (DOE) to offer the specialized high school admissions test (SHSAT) in languages other than English. This exam is the ...

Nov 20, 2024 · Single Mom Scammed by Ticket Hawkers Highlights Pattern of Persistent Crime Downtown The recent case of a single mother with two small children, who was conned by swindlers selling bogus tickets to the Statue of Liberty at Battery Park, illustrates an ongoing case of lawlessness in Lower Manhattan. Over the summer, Ashley Bryan treated her children, Sophia (aged 11) and Eli (four), to a trip ...

Jan 7, 2025 · Eleventh-Hour Deal Scuttles Federal Funding for WTC Health Program A last-minute change to the federal spending bill that kept the government from shutting down in late December dropped proposed funding for the World Trade Center Health Program (which serves people made sick by toxic debris from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001) that had previously been agreed upon by a bi-partisan ...

Oct 10, 2024 · Private School Falls More Than Eight Million Behind on Rent in FiDi The future of an elite Lower Manhattan private school is under a cloud, after falling behind on millions of dollars in rent for more than a year, which has had the collateral effect of putting the building’s mortgage on a watchlist for loans that may wipe out investors …

Blasting Through Solid Rock to Safeguard New York’s Reputation for the Best Pizza and Bagels Hundreds of feet below the bottom of the Hudson River, at a spot a half day’s sail north from the Battery Park City esplanade, sandhogs (as workers who excavate tunnels are known) are busy blasting and boring a new tunnel to keep the finest fresh water in …

Sep 29, 2024 · Law Passes to Create Trail of Historical Markers Related to Slavery On September 12, the City Council unanimously voted to ratify the Road to Freedom Act, a bill sponsored by member Christopher Marte that will impanel a 13-member task force of government officials and academic experts to plan an urban historical trail in Lower Manhattan (and beyond) to raise awareness about the role New York ...