 fumihiko Maki’s tower 4.
joe woolhead
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World Trade Center Rising
The heavy-construction hubbub that has consumed this 16-acre site for most of the last decade is finally showing results, with Tower 1’s steel now 28 floors above grade and Tower 4 framed up to the sixth. Aaron Seward takes a bedrock-to-bird’s-eye tour of Ground Zero and reports on what we can expect from the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein in the years to come.
 lmcc swing space resident ari tabei at 120 broadway.
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Downtown’s Culture Scene
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council was among the victims of 9/11, losing one of its resident artists and suffering further from the economic downturn that ground philanthropy to a halt. Matt Chaban talks with Sam Miller, the organization’s new executive director, about the cultural assets poised for rebirth along with the rest of downtown.
 frank gehry’s beekman tower.
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Residential Revival
The live-in population of Lower Manhattan has more than doubled to 55,000 since 2001, and many buyers are now on the prowl for playgrounds rather than party pads. Jennifer K. Gorsche surveys the shifting real estate landscape, checking in with high-profile new projects like Beekman Tower and Riverhouse.
 the alliance for downtown new york’s water street plan.
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Greening the Granite Canyon
Along with a growing residential neighborhood comes a new need for parks and public open space. Alan G. Brake reports on the boom in pocket parks and playgrounds, as well as the evolving East River Esplanade and a major new streetscape proposal for Water Street.
 the 1966 lower manhattan plan.
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The Planning of Lower Manhattan
Few places in New York have been as intensively masterplanned as Lower Manhattan. William Menking reviews the rise of the superblock and explores the mixed legacy of David Rockefeller’s Downtown Lower Manhattan Association.
 downtown circa 2018.
courtesy lmccc
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12.31.2018> Lower Manhattan in Development
AN takes a comprehensive snapshot of new residential projects, commercial buildings, parks, schools, and transportation improvements below Canal Street as projected in 2018, logging the developers, architects, and landscape architects at work shaping downtown’s future.
 the lmccc’s "4-D" view of lower manhattan.
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Building a Better Map
In recent months, the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center has transformed how New Yorkers understand the changes taking place in what is collectively the biggest construction site in the city. Katherine Lindstedt takes a peek behind the scenes of the agency’s latest online mapping model and its powerful, publicly accessible database.