One of two “Resonating Bodies” by British sculptor Tony Cragg. ( Photo: Brian Berger) Newly Raised Wagner Park Reopens, Lower Manhattanites Rejoice! More than two years after it was closed, in March 2023, as part of the Southern Battery Resiliency Project, a redesigned... News 04 Aug 2025 | 10:22
Downtown officers have been looking for, and finding, illegal guns on the Lower East Side. ( Photo: NYPD) Gun Bust in Alphabet City; Fulton Street Subway Shover Sentenced While much of New York was still processing the mass shooting at 345 Park Ave. that killed four people on July 28, alert... News 04 Aug 2025 | 10:28
A marcher is carried away by police officers at an anti-ICE protest in Lower Manhattan, June 10, 2025. ( Photo: Alex Krales/THE CITY) NYPD Arrests Dozens as Thousands of New Yorkers Join L.A. in Protesting ICE Raids Thousands of New Yorkers flooded the streets of Lower Manhattan the evening of June 10 protesting the Trump administration’s... News 11 Jun 2025 | 11:36
Welcome to Maritime City! The A.A. Thomson & Co building, outside and in, March 12, 2025. ( Brian Berger) South Street Seaport Museum Opens Stunning Maritime Exhibit Ship ahoy! Have ye see the Maritime City exhibition? Hotly anticipated since last autumn, when the A.A. Thomson & Co. warehouse... News 24 Mar 2025 | 01:39
Suspected robbers as seen on Feb. 10, at the start of a crime spree that has targeted pedestrians in downtown Manhattan five times. Man on left appears older, man on right, aboard the Staten Island Ferry, looks younger. ( Photo: NYPD) Headphone Bandits Preying on Pedestrians in Downtown Nabes Police say a duo is at work stealing headphones five times across Lower Manhattan, and the same bandits are suspected of... News 24 Feb 2025 | 03:00
The apartment building is the “first curated rental residence” in the city, according to its website, but chances of landing a spot by a new affordable housing lottery are very slim. Photo via Street Easy ‘Exhibit’ Opens Its Apartment Lottery, Again — With Only Four Vacancies A 2017 luxury apartment building in the Financial District is back on the affordable housing market. But this time around,... News 03 Jan 2023 | 04:26
Democratic NY-10 candidate Daniel Goldman (left) campaigned with Attorney General Letitia James (center) and Democratic NYS Assembly candidate Grace Lee (second from right) on the Lower East Side on Election Day. Photo via Dan Goldman’s Twitter A Blue Wave Sweeps Manhattan Early in the morning on Election Day, Governor Kathy Hochul addressed what was shaping up to be a competitive race between... News 10 Nov 2022 | 06:10
On Twitter, “Trash Heaps of FiDi” (@FiDiTrash) documents Downtown’s trash pile problem. Photo from Trash Heaps of FiDi FiDi, a Haven For Pedestrians? Are sidewalks in Manhattan’s Financial District too narrow for carefree strolls (or, perhaps more commonly, hurried commutes)?... News 15 Jul 2022 | 02:41
Governors Island. Photo: www.collectiveretreats.com/governors-island The Gift of a NYC Experience The spring and summer gift season is upon us, and between Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, engagement parties and weddings, buying... News 26 Apr 2022 | 01:02
U.S. Congressman Jerrold Nadler standing with Rabbi Joseph Potasnick, Executive Vice President, New York Board of Rabbis, who received the Gershom Mendes Seixas Religious Freedom Award on Friday, April 8, 2022. Ambrose Madison Richardson (fourth from left), President of the Lower Manhattan Historical Association, presented the award. Photo: Wellington Chen, LMHA Board of Directors Commemorating Religious Freedom The Lower Manhattan Historical Association held its Second Annual Ceremony honoring the 292th anniversary of the Consecration... News 10 Apr 2022 | 07:28
Professor Malcolm Bowman (left), NY NJ Storm Surge Working Group chair, introduces Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer. Photo: Victoria Bonilla Baez A Superstorm Sandy Boat Tour On October 28, the New York New Jersey Storm Surge Working Group (SSWG) hosted the Superstorm Sandy Ninth Anniversary Coastal... News 29 Oct 2021 | 12:42
The September 11 Commemoration Ceremony in 2020. Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office. The Forever Epicenter History constantly recalibrates our threshold of the unfathomable. What we thought was unbearable turns out to have been... Home 08 Sep 2021 | 01:45
The 9/11 memorial. Photo: Jörg Schubert, via Flickr. 9/11: Burned in My Brain I had been looking forward to Sept. 11, 2001, for weeks. It was going to be a red-letter day. Bob Dylan’s newest album, Love... Home 30 Aug 2021 | 01:01
Memorial Lights, Sept. 11, 2020. Photo: Florin C, via Flickr Downtown: 20 Years After 9/11 Two decades ago, our world changed on Tuesday, September 11th with the largest terrorist attack on American soil at the heart... News 30 Aug 2021 | 08:44
Jenny Low. Photo courtesy of Low’s campaign Jenny Low: ‘I Get It Done’ Jenny Low immigrated to the United States with her family when she was 12 years old, learning English while attending school.... News 28 May 2021 | 09:37
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