Opponents of a planned “low barrier” shelter for single adults at 320 Pearl Street crowded into the Southbridge Towers ...

Lisa Ripperger, principal of P.S. 234 in Tribeca, wrote the following note to parents after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., and their expressed concerns about the first day back to school. It includes ...

After being closed for years, Borough of Manhattan Community College's pool is open, and so is its registration for the Community Swim Program. The newly renovated pool features six lap lanes, each ...

That’s the Department of Transportation’s message to Lower Manhattan motorists. The city agency plans to create what it calls a Regional Slow Zone for roadways below Canal Street that will reduce the ...

For 20 years, Laurie Spiegel has been feeding pigeons almost daily near Tribeca’s Duane Park. A loft dweller in the neighborhood since 1976, she is a composer widely known for her pioneering work in ...

Two of the most historic and magnificent interiors in Lower Manhattan are now designated as city-protected landmarks. Last month the Landmarks Preservation Commission granted that status to the “rare ...

A century and a half ago, when the eastern half of Tribeca was the textile capital of the U.S., one woman stood out as an economic powerhouse in what was essentially an all-male world. Known ...

It was thanks to a group of local activists back in the late 1980s that the city came to designate Tribeca’s four historic districts, preserving and protecting a swath of the neighborhood’s 19th ...

The lights are on, holiday wreaths hang above the doorways, and Christmas music echoes through the halls of Pier 17. But merchants in the South Street Seaport shopping mall say they aren’t feeling a ...

Drawing in Battery Park City Parks has begun. Classes in figure drawing with a live model and nature drawings take place weekly. They are free and all materials are provided. Here are descriptions for ...

Like the rest of the city and the region, Lower Manhattan woke up on Tues­day morning, Oct. 30, to the aftermath of the city’s worst storm in memory. From the South Street Seaport, where workers ...