Fifty years ago, the waterfront edge of the 92 acres of newly created land between West Street and the Hudson River was built as a sheer wall of inhospitable, vertical concrete. Today, as the Battery ...

Super speeders”—the fewer than one half of one percent of all New York State drivers who have each been caught 16 times or ...

Although there is no universally accepted definition of the term, hostile architecture (sometimes called “defensive design”) ...

The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani has designated an operator for a new shelter in a Financial District building. The former Radisson New York Wall Street Hotel at 52 William Street (near Pine ...

Ms. Glen said, “I want to remind this group that we were asked to revisit the terms of the original deal because of all of ...

The headline of this story is from an essay titled A Defence of Poetry by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), ...

Wednesday, Earth Day, will bring a Bowling Green Park Pickup hosted by the Downtown Alliance from 10am to noon, followed by ...

People wishing to live in an affordable unit at the Aria Platt 7 may enter the affordable housing lottery overseen by the City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. These apartments ...

Paddlers in Downtown Boathouse kayaks, however, are required to stay within the embayment—the indentation of the shoreline ...

The September 11th Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) has released its annual report for 2025. Slightly more than 192,000 people are now registered with the fund, which was created by the federal ...

Opponents of the plan to demolish and rebuild Wagner Park, with the aim of creating resiliency measures designed to protect against flooding, have reached an agreement with the Battery Park City ...