Archives for March 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Editor’s Note: Monday’s edition of the BroadsheetDAILY incorrectly stated that a Battery Park City resident was taken from an apartment at 280 Rector Street over the weekend, by an ambulance crew dressed in full hazard suits and wearing respirators. This event took place on Thursday, March 26, and […]

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 Spruce 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 […]