W.T.C. Under Construction
Construction on 4 World Trade Center will be complete in Fall 2013, says Silverstein Properties, the building’s developer. Once complete, the tower will house 1.8 million square feet of office and 146,000 square feet of retail space. Top left: Renderings by Maki and Associates show how the entrance to Tower 4 with an open lobby [...]
Signs of progress at the World Trade Center site have been visibly mounting over the past year. As of Feb. 1, the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center reported that 1 W.T.C., expected to open late 2013, will have the glass facade installed in floors 90-100. The first piece 408-foot-tall spire (which will bring total height [...]
Continue reading …BY CATHERINE MCVAY HUGHES COMMUNITY BOARD 1 | In the coming two years, our vision of Community Board 1 as New York City’s premier live-work neighborhood will take important strides forward. This community, whose strength is founded on our working together, has many reasons to be optimistic. This year and next will be big years [...]
Continue reading …BY ELIZABETH BERGER DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE | A bouquet of flowers, a quick bite, a literary journal: These are the kinds of little things that make so much of a difference in today’s fast-paced world. Underground connections, soaring architecture, interactive signage and wayfinding: These are the hallmarks of a 21st century transportation network. What do they have in common? [...]
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BY JOE DANIELS | On Feb. 26, the 9/11 Memorial will have a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in which six people were killed. The names of those victims are inscribed on the memorial among the names of 9/11 victims. As we look ahead into the new year, [...]
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BY MATTHEW CHERRY BROOKFIELD OFFICE PROPERTIES | Brookfield Place/World Financial Center is less than a year away from bringing exciting new additions to Battery Park City and Lower Manhattan. Brookfield Office Properties, Lower Manhattan’s largest landlord, is investing $250 million to renovate the eight-million-square-foot complex to transform the shopping and dining experience. In addition, access [...]
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BY SHELDON SILVER | Each time I travel the streets of my hometown, I am inspired by the incredible progress we have made in rebuilding our Lower Manhattan community over this last decade. Surely, ten years ago, no one was predicting the incredible comeback we have made or the bright future that is so clearly [...]
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BY GAYLE M. HORWITZ | Not many years ago, what is today’s Battery Park City was the shoreline of the Hudson River, dotted with crumbling piers. As the 1960s became the ‘70s, promise became progress as 92 acres of landfill began to take shape. We were in financing, design and construction mode for decades until [...]
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BY ERIC GREENLEAF | This spring brought distressing but not unexpected news — none of Downtown’s elementary schools will have enough room for the coming fall’s kindergarteners. Almost a hundred Downtown families are consigned to wait lists and face an uncertain future, not knowing if their child will be able to attend their local school, [...]
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BY SAMUEL I. SCHWARTZ | Over 20 years ago, when I was the city’s traffic chief, I warned that Lower Manhattan would be deluged with drive-through traffic if then-Congressman Guy Molinari’s one-way toll system at the Verrazano Bridge was passed into federal law. It was, and as a result, Lower Manhattan is suffering more than [...]
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