If you need a little local fauna in your life, stroll down to Rockefeller to see the little guys, who are still smaller than the average carp. But there is also a bit of a fledgling flap as well... / 9 comments
The Battery Park City Authority will start construction on their plan to protect the ballfields from storm surges, and should have the work completed by summer.
Plus the Four Seasons opens a new membership-only spa; the South Cove gets an engineering award. / 1 comment
Poets House has installed fragments of 53 poems throughout the park, making for an inspirational weekend -- or anytime -- activity. / 1 comment
Hudson River Park reopened dog runs, tennis courts and water fountains for Phase 1. Battery Park City opened bathrooms today. Fields are still TBD. / 3 comments
The city is lighting up its monuments and buildings tonight in honor of park workers who have been essential workers for these past two months. They all deserve it.
Both Hudson River Park and Battery Park City parks are patrolled by security services, but only the NYPD can issue summonses for social distancing. Pro tip: best to go out on weekdays. / 11 comments
Take 10 minutes to observe nature in Rockefeller and Wagner parks or along the esplanade and contribute to the authority's Wildlife Survey. / 2 comments
Plus art house classics shown in a BPC series; the deli on Lafayette and Duane is closed; Staple Street bridge property gets some facade repairs. / 1 comment
Plus Museum of Ice Cream reopens in Soho; Battery Park City will recycle trees through Jan. 24; the Woolrich store in Soho has installed a room where it snows all the time. / 1 comment
Plus the Financial Times on running in NYC; the cachet of Cortlandt Alley; the origins of the man cave on Collister Street. / 2 comments
Plus the city changed the speed limit on West Street: it is now 30 as of Saturday!! and Gourmet Garage is sold to a ShopRite operator; the millions of dollars of art in BPC; a memorial to tourists eaten by wolves.
A common sense approach, I like it. — Will / Army Corps has plans to build a wall down the westside
Maybe we should just accept that lower Manhattan will flood from time to time, at least until it is eventually... — Robert Ripps / Army Corps has plans to build a wall down the westside
This is the cheaper alternative. It’s cost is estimated at $52Billion where as the New York Harbor storm surge was... — FiDiGuy / Army Corps has plans to build a wall down the westside
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This is the Army Corps, not the city. Agree it's ugly, but it's not likely to ever happen. — malcolm / Army Corps has plans to build a wall down the westside