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| Changes Announced to Plans
for WTC Site |
Architect Daniel Libeskind, along
with officials of the LMDC and Port Authority, presented a "refined"
version of his master plan for the World Trade Center site that
removes truck access and transportation infrastructure from
the footprints, moves more than 1 million square feet of office
space to a new building south of Liberty Street and creates
a new park. Posted September 19
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| Lower Manhattan: 9/11/03 |
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An infinite jumble of memories
and emotions resurfaced in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2003.
While there is no way to measure the hurt and anger that are
yet to be soothed or the recovery, in human terms, that has
been made, the anniversary served as a time to take stock of
where we are, two years away from that terrible day.
Posted September 14
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| IPN's Fate Rests with Talks and New Bill |
| IPN Owner Says Tenants Should Fear
Not |
In an interview, Independence Plaza
North owner Laurence Gluck asserted that the residential complex
will remain affordable to its middle- and low-income tenants
and become a better place to live.
Posted September 5
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| IPN Tenants See
Hope in New Council Bill |
In a step that could have a major
impact on Tribeca’s Independence Plaza North residential
complex, legislation was introduced last month in the City Council
that would offer new protections for tenants at developments
where the landlord wants to withdraw from the Mitchell-Lama
government housing subsidy program.
Posted September 5
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| Critics Blast Subsidies for Luxury Apartments |
Liberty Bonds, created to spur
development after 9/11, are under fire for financing rentals
for the rich.
Posted September 5
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| It's Ciao Time
for Vanished Store Owner |
The owner of Leonardo & Rees,
an 8-month-old furniture store on Greenwich Street, is back
in Italy. He leaves behind an emptied space and many angry customers.
Posted September 5
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| "Nothing
Is Right" with Front of New Hotel |
Landmarks Preservation commissioners
are vigilant in protecting the city’s historic
districts from inappropriate construction. So it
is not unusual for them to say no to a proposed
facade alteration or a design for a new building
that is presented for their approval. Rarely, however,
do they recoil in horror.
Posted September 5
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| Downtowners Give Their Wish
List to LMDC |
Grand visions came out of a series
of Downtown workshops held recently by the Lower
Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) in six
Downtown neighborhoods. At the invitation-only events,
residents, business people, and representatives
of cultural and community groups got the unusual
opportunity to say how they would spend the remaining
$1.2 billion in federal funds for Downtown development.
Posted September 5
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| Ferry Fumes Mar Park Summer. But for What? |
At a temporary terminal constructed
near the playground in Rockefeller Park, NY Waterway ferries
came and went through the summer, many of them filling the air
with a dark haze. While some cautious parents avoided the park
when the wind blew east—or stayed away altogether—no
work on the new, permanent terminal site had begun. That left
some parents wondering: what was the rush to put a terminal
near the playground in the first place?
Posted September 5
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