Month: November 2019

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Of Separation and Celebration Reaching Across the Chasm, At Least for an Evening Jean Leon Gerome Ferris’s 1915 oil painting, “The First Thanksgiving 1621,” enshrines a redemptive (if somewhat simplified) fable of reconciliation among polar opposites, that remains both resonant and relevant today….

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Quid Pro No? FiDi Renters Seek Recompense for Years of Rent Overcharges; Landlord Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Overrule Tenants’ Victory A map, compiled by New York University’s Furman Center (which advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy)illustrating the dozens…

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Artists-Not-In-Residence Your Next Neighbors Might Be Vastly Less Interesting, But Better Able to Pay High Rents Even as public art proliferates in Lower Manhattan (seen here in the form of a new mural at the World Trade Center), artists themselves are being driven…

EYES TO THE SKY  November 25 – December 8, 2019 Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon at dusk. Mars, Mercury dawn   Innermost planet Mercury puts on its best morning display of the year for Northern Hemisphere observers from late November to early December.  This looping animation shows the changing configuration of Mercury, Mars and Virgo’s brightest…