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Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The USNS COMFORT passes Lower Manhattan this morning. Photo: Jeff Galloway Grim Harbingers Local Luminaries Claimed by Pandemic, with Tally of Losses Poised to Grow A truck parked on Beekman Street, outside of New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, that appears to be intended for use as a temporary morgue. […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Where to Get Care Lower Manhattan Health Resources for Residents with Concerns The CityMD urgent care facility in Tribeca, at 87 Chambers Street, is one of five non-emergency clinics that remain open in Lower Manhattan. Government officials are asking that people with non-urgent health problems avoid showing up […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Desperate Times for Street Food Vendors Council Member and Advocacy Group Petition for Funds and to Suspend Most Enforcement Actions Toward Food Carts Street vendors, who are mostly ineligible for benefits like unemployment or health insurance, have recently suffered losses of more than 80 percent of their usual […]

View as Webpage photo: Jeff Galloway Lower Manhattan’s Local News Comfort and Mercy Navy Hospital Ships Dispatched to New York and Los Angeles The hospital ship USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty on her previous operational deployment to New York, in the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Two military vessels […]

Child’s Play at the Battery Local kids help break ground for the Battery Playscape Joined by elected officials, Lower Manhattan leaders, and a couple of excited Downtown kids, the Battery Conservancy broke ground on March 12 for the Battery Playscape, an unusual playground for children of all ages and abilities. To open in Spring of […]

View as Webpage photo: Jeff Galloway Contact The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Niou Deal Assembly Member Proposes Finance Reform as Funding Mechanism for Affordable Housing State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou: “When you go shopping in New York City, how much extra do you pay for sales tax? This transfer tax of one-half of […]

WANTED: Your Coronavirus story in one hundred words. Photo welcome, but not necessary. Please send an email to editor@ebroadsheet.com to let us know how you are managing during these trying times. ———————————————————————————– coveni covidi covici Maryna Lansky —————————————————————————— To the editor, I went down to lower Manhattan on Monday to take photos of Pier 15 on […]

Going to the Mattresses Lower Manhattan Hunkers Down, as Coronavirus Crisis Grinds On Multiple residents of Lower Manhattan have now tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, including one tenant at Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City, who has been hospitalized and is breathing with the assistance of a mechanical ventilator, according to a range sources […]

View as Webpage Contact The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local News Going to the Mattresses Lower Manhattan Hunkers Down, as Coronavirus Crisis Grinds On Multiple residents of Lower Manhattan have now tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, including one tenant at Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City, who has been hospitalized and is breathing with the […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Looking at a Map of Weekend Travel Ideas WANTED: Your Coronavirus story in one hundred words. Photo welcome, but not necessary. Please send an email to editor@ebroadsheet.com to let us know how you are managing during these trying times. To the editor: I’ve lived in lower Manhattan for […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Necessity Is the Mother of Intervention Repurposing of Rivington House Might Help Meet Need for Clinical Capacity Arising from Pandemic Rivington House on the Lower East Side A Lower Manhattan building steeped in controversy may become a lifeline for people infected by the pandemic COVID-19 virus. In a […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Community Contagion Additional Cases of Corona Virus Reported in Lower Manhattan More confirmed and possible cases of the pandemic COVID-19 virus have been linked to Lower Manhattan. Two employees of the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, leading that facility’s owner, the Intercontinental […]

Church Street School Celebrates 30 Years Art and Music School Honors Local Family Church Street School of Music and Art could not have made it to its 30th birthday without the support of families like the Kleimans of Battery Park City. This year, in celebration of 30 years of music and art making, the school […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Meditations in an Emergency Our Hometown and the Myth of Eternal Return You tell yourself that you’ve seen this story before, and more than once: edifices falling; waters rising. And you reflect that the worst situations are not those that can’t get any worse. The worst situations are […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Lifeline for Mom-and-Pop Shops Amid Coron-Apocalypse, City Offers Loans and Grants for Struggling Small Businesses The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has inaugurated a program to aid small businesses that have experienced financial hardship because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Firms with fewer than 100 employees, […]

Eyes to the Sky March 16 – 29, 2020 Scroll down this link FOR VIDEO > SET-UP TO RUN Find Orion and tell “Globe at Night” Here’s how: Tonight’s waning last quarter (half) moon rises at 2:19am, well positioned for moonlight not to interfere with evening stargazing. From today, March 16, through next Tuesday, March […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Downtown Lockdown Lower Manhattan Goes Quiet in Response to Corona Virus Pandemic Tourists on Broadway and Wall Street The local impact of the Covid-19 pandemic continued to widen over the weekend. Multiple new confirmed cases of infection were reported, including at the office of the U.S Attorney for […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News View Current Issue COVID-19 NEWS Downtown Community Notices Manhattan Youth As news has developed over the day, our leadership team has determined that the best course of action for the immediate future is the following: Saturday March 14th, and Sunday March 15th, Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center will […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Lower Manhattan Property Values Catch the Flu Wall Street’s Bear Market Extends to Condominium Prices The pandemic Covid-19 virus and stock market meltdown are accelerating a trend that was already gripping Lower Manhattan: declining property values. The prices for condominium apartments Downtown peaked in late 2017, and have […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News It’s Here Employees of Three Local Firms Test Positive for Pandemic Virus Staff members at three local offices have become the first confirmed cases in Lower Manhattan of the Covid-19 virus that is triggering paroxysms in the health care system and the financial markets. On Monday, in a […]