The two-way bike lane will take up the innermost west-bound lane of the roadway and should be finished by this fall. / 4 comments
Images of some of the city's more than 30,000 victims were projected onto the stone arches of the Brooklyn Bridge. / 1 comment
Finally, a realistic plan that will make the bridge better, safer and more pleasant for both cyclists and pedestrians. Yay. / 4 comments
The public can join in for a discussion -- and competition by the Van Alen Institute -- on how to imagine the bridge's overcrowded walkway. / 3 comments
Architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi give a virtual tour of the bridge; local principals chat about remote learning; a former Tribecan and her mark on the art world.
Plus: The Brooklyn Bridge was closed because of pedestrian overcrowding; remembering a razed Battery Park mansion; the last days of Washington Market.
Plus: Former Trump fixer puts 111 Murray apartment up for rent; local thefts; living in Battery Park City; FiDi development map; Champion to open store on Broadway. / 7 comments
Plus: More details on yesterday's car wreck; FBI agent's car burgled outside Federal Plaza.
Plus: Bouley Test Kitchen has moved uptown; the Department of Transportation will reverse traffic on several FiDi streets (and add a diagonal crosswalk); ferry riders forced to wait an hour because boats were full; Wagner Park plan upsets Community Board 1 members; Brooklyn Bridge drill causes concern. / 2 comments
While wandering around the other day, I ended up under the Brooklyn Bridge and I fell in love—with the old infrastructure that reminds me of the way Tribeca used to be, with the tangle of ramps, with the general derelictness. / 6 comments
Plus: "Love locks" to be cut from the Brooklyn Bridge; St. John's Terminal project to lose its High Line park; St. Paul statue; new Australian café in FiDi.
Plus: Renderings and floor plans for 70 Vestry; FiDi fire now under control; Black Tap expansion; World Chess Championship coming to the Seaport; the Battery Dance Festival starts next week. / 3 comments
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