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How to Get a Covid Vaccine in Lower Manhattan

How to Get a Covid Vaccine in Lower Manhattan

More New Yorkers are now able to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Grocery workers, first responders, school and child-care workers, public transit...

Battery Park City Library Is Back With Grab-and-Go Service

Battery Park City Library Is Back With Grab-and-Go Service

Your reading options just expanded in Lower Manhattan: The New York Public Library’s Battery Park City branch (175 North End Avenue) has reopened...

Paycheck Protection Program Funds Are Coming. Here’s How to Prepare for Your Application.

Paycheck Protection Program Funds Are Coming. Here’s How to Prepare for Your Application.

UPDATE, Monday, January 11: Paycheck Protection Program funds will be available for select lenders and borrowers beginning today. Contact your...

Lower Manhattan’s Guide to Donating, Recycling All Your Old Stuff

Lower Manhattan’s Guide to Donating, Recycling All Your Old Stuff

The new year is always a choice time to clean out your excess stuff, so you can make some room in your home and donate things to people in need. New...

CrossFit Wall Street Is Ready to (Safely) Whip You Back Into Shape

CrossFit Wall Street Is Ready to (Safely) Whip You Back Into Shape

While many people were hunkering down during quarantine and resigning themselves to lots of snacks and couch time as the world outside seemingly...

Get Free Masks at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center

Get Free Masks at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center

If you’re in need of some masks, the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center will be handing them out for free this week and next. Stop in front...

Give Thanks to Essential Workers This Year. You’re Going to Need Them.

Give Thanks to Essential Workers This Year. You’re Going to Need Them.

The 7 p.m. clap is long gone, overwhelmed by the protests for racial justice that took over the city this summer. In 2020 time, it feels like ages...

Testing, Flu Shots, Staying Home: How to Have a Safe, Healthy Holiday Season

Testing, Flu Shots, Staying Home: How to Have a Safe, Healthy Holiday Season

You’ve seen the headlines by now: we’re entering the high-risk holiday season just as COVID-19 cases are spiking all around the country....

Lace Up Your Skates: Brookfield Place’s Ice Skating Rink Is Back for the Holidays

Lace Up Your Skates: Brookfield Place’s Ice Skating Rink Is Back for the Holidays

Don’t let the unseasonably summery weather fool you, for the holiday season has one of the city’s best socially-distanced perks: outdoor ice...

Outdoor Seating and Coworking Space Comes to Lower Manhattan

Outdoor Seating and Coworking Space Comes to Lower Manhattan

UPDATE, December 1: Out-of-Office was damaged during this week's windstorm yesterday and has been removed from its location at Elevated Acre. We...

‘Incredibly Unlikely to Get Infected From Somebody on the Subway’: Talking Transportation in COVID With ‘Gridlock’ Sam Schwartz

‘Incredibly Unlikely to Get Infected From Somebody on the Subway’: Talking Transportation in COVID With ‘Gridlock’ Sam Schwartz

Sam Schwartz is one of New York City’s leading transportation experts, having gotten his start as a cabbie in the 1960s and working his way up to...

It’s Election Day! How to Figure Out Where to Vote in Lower Manhattan

It’s Election Day! How to Figure Out Where to Vote in Lower Manhattan

After a seeming eternity, Election Day is finally upon us. For those of you living below Chambers Street who haven’t had the chance to vote by mail...