Month: April 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Merchant Munificence Alliance Throws a Lifeline to Lower Manhattan Small Businesses Jessica Lappin, president of the Downtown Alliance: “There is not one storefront business in New York City that has been spared by COVID-19. Every one of them is struggling. We are stepping up to do what we...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Remembering a Fallen Healer A Local Leader Recalls Tribeca’s Nisar Quraishi Nisar A. Quraishi, MD (1947 – 2020) Russ Schulman, a longtime resident of Tribeca and the associate executive director at Manhattan Youth, says of Dr. Nisar A. Quraishi, “he was my primary care physician for decades, and...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Where the Sidewalk Forfends Data Scientist Finds That Downtown Footpaths Impede Social Distancing This online data visualization map shows the prevalence of streets in Lower Manhattan deemed too narrow for effective distancing from passersby. Although Lower Manhattan is among the communities least affected by the pandemic coronavirus anywhere...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage An April Intervention The Hunter and the Hunted, Along with a Haunted Onlooker Isaiah Berlin famously observed that, “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” A Lower Manhattan resident thought of this on a Saturday afternoon in mid-April, when Downtown was locked...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage An April Intervention The Hunter and the Hunted, Along with a Haunted Onlooker Isaiah Berlin famously observed that, “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” A Lower Manhattan resident thought of this on a Saturday afternoon in mid-April, when Downtown was locked...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Curve Flattens Rate of Increase for Confirmed Infections Among Downtown Residents Tapers Off Lower Manhattan’s eight zip codes are the site of 585 confirmed cases of coronavirus, up from 529 cases on April 17, which represents an increase of approximately 10.5 percent in one week. This rate...