Mayor Bloomberg envisions urban hamlet for Lower Manhattan
Mayor Bloomberg announced his vision for Lower Manhattan creating a direct challenge to the Port Authority's uninspired commercial space-centric plans according to this New York Times story (registration required):
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg yesterday offered his vision of the future of Lower Manhattan: a collection of neighborhoods stitched together by large parks and broad pedestrian walkways, with a direct mass transit link to Kennedy Airport via a new tunnel under the East River.
Under Mr. Bloomberg's plan, Lower Manhattan would essentially be transformed from an ailing financial center with pockets of residential developments into an urban hamlet of housing, schools, libraries and movie theaters, as well as other businesses, some of which would benefit from a generous new federal tax package.