Archives for December 2019

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com The BroadsheetDAILY  and the print edition of the Broadsheet  will resume on January 6, 2020. Happy Holidays to All! Shutter to Think Turns Out That Ignorance of the Law Is an Actually Pretty Good Excuse The 1867 structure at 315 Church Street, which […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Listen to the sounds of the season at the Seaport Bridge of Sighs CB1 Meeting Tonight Will Be Last Opportunity to Support Preservation of Rector Street Bridge The Rector Street pedestrian bridge, which was constructed in 2002 and originally slated for demolition in […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Exaction Redaction Downtown Traffic May Ease as Congress Okays Change to Verrazzano Toll The Verrazzano Bridge is located more than eight miles from Lower Manhattan, but multiple studies indicate that tolling patterns there have a significant impact on traffic congestion here. The United […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Recalling Five Points Epicenter of a Notorious Slum Proposed for Commemoration The Five Points gang, a criminal organization that drew its members from the ethnic immigrant populations that inhabited the neighborhood. In 1831, the City government considered a petition that warned, “that the […]

Recalling Five Points Epicenter of a Notorious Slum Proposed for Commemoration The Five Points gang, a criminal organization that drew its members from the ethnic immigrant populations that inhabited the neighborhood. In 1831, the City government considered a petition that warned, “that the place known as “Five points” has long been notorious… as being the […]

Calendar Tuesday the 17th of December 10:30AM Zumba Jumpstart Battery Park City Authority  Join a fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and more! Enthusiastic instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new steps each week. Bring your friends and share in this fit and fun dancing community. FREE […]

RiverWatch Cruise Ships in New York Harbor QM2                            photo: Matthew Breitenbach Arrivals & Departures ——————————————————————— Friday, December 20 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 5:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 3:00 pm  Port Canaveral, FL/Bahamas Norwegian Bliss Inbound 6:15 am; outbound 3:30 pm  Port Canaveral, FL/Bahamas […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Compulsory Commemoration Cuomo Administration Decides on South Cove for Mother Cabrini Memorial The planting bed, south of South Cove, that the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo has selected as the site for a memorial to Mother Cabrini. On Friday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Doing Good While Doing Well Howard Hughes Practices Corporate Citizen in the Seaport Mr. Scherl and Howard Hughes staffers volunteering at the Bowery Mission, where they helped to serve free meals to underprivileged clients. If the giving season is an appropriate time to […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Back to the Drawing Board City Landmarks Agency Agrees with CB1 about “Disaster and Affront” A view of the facade proposed for 11 Hubert Street, which Mr. Ehrmann describes as, “a prison, guarding the residents from us.” The City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com A Friend of the Court Landmarks Agency Says Justice Complex May Merit Protection The New Deal-era Criminal Courts Building at 100 Centre Street is widely regarded as a historic treasure, but does not currently enjoy any legal protection that would prevent it from […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com A Cup of Good Cheer Among Neighbors Gateway Tenants Group to Host Holiday Get-Together Tonight Gateway Plaza residents, and members of the GPTA board, gathered last year (with State Senator Brian Kavanagh) at Le Pain Quotidien, for the organization’s annual holiday party. This […]

EYES TO THE SKY December 9-22, 2019 Venus and Saturn, Full Cold Moon Winter Solstice Today’s sunset, earliest of the year, down to the second, is at 4:28:30pm. Sunset time is seconds later beginning tomorrow, until it is nearly one minute later, 4:29:27 on December 15. Afternoons will be noticeably lighter by month’s end. Sunrise […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Vaulting Ambition Plan Floated to Span East River with Arch Containing Thousands of Apartments and New Transit Portal A view (looking northward, along the FDR Drive) lends perspective on what will, if built, be the largest building in the world in terms of […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com The Weekend Calendar December 7 & 8 Listen to the sounds of the season Saturday December 7 9AM – 1PM Chess Tournament 6 River Terrace Challenge yourself in a Swiss-style tournament where each participant will have the opportunity to compete, learn and develop […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Putting the Art Back into an Artifact A Living Remnant of a Vibrant Culture Comes to Battery Place “The Sorceress,” a uniquely Jewish fairy tale about an innocent young heroine, her dashing fiance, a devious stepmother, and a scheming witch, is being presented […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Extreme Makeover How a Nazi Sympathizer’s Tribeca Garage Could Become a Luxe Mansion The builder’s plans call for a 17,000-square-foot private home that will contain four bedrooms, ten bathrooms, a multi-car garage, and a basement-level indoor basketball court, as well as outdoor patio […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com What If All This Is Not Enough? Pondering Whether $300 Million and 16.5 Feet of Protection Will Matter 85 Broad Street parking garage after Sandy At the October 29 meeting of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board, Catherine McVay Hughes raised a […]