Archives for 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 […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Hostel Intentions Downtown Hotel Business May Be an Enduring Casualty of Pandemic The Conrad Hotel, in Battery Park City, is being used to house healthcare workers battling the pandemic coronavirus. As local travel and tourism have ground to a halt in the wake of the pandemic coronavirus, one […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Speaking Up for What Was Left Out Upstart Assembly Member Opposes Governor and Legislative Leaders on Budget State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou: “We’re facing a crisis. The State budget asked us as legislators to respond to decades of shortfalls by cutting more — even as we know that our […]

EYES TO THE SKY April 20 – May 3, 2020 Not to be missed: International Dark Sky Week programs reach us at home. Now in progress, International Dark Sky Week IDSW, April 19-26: The International Dark-Sky Association invites us — with a special nod to homebound families — to engage with dynamic authors, educators, artists, […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Beaker takes a seat on Stone Street and wonders, “Where’d everybody go?” photo by Iphy Murphy COVID-19 and your pets. A Guide from the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare Click here to read about how to care for your pet during the COVID-19 Pandemic It’s Like Deja Vu […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Who remembers Iggy, the 40-foot iguana formerly of the Lone Star Cafe on Lower 5th Avenue and subsequently perched atop Pier 25 by Bob Wade and Bob Townley in the 1980s? For some years now, Iggy has resided at the Fort Worth Texas Zoo reptile exhibit. The charismatic […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Governor Cuomo has issued an executive order requiring all people in New York to wear masks or face coverings in public, including when taking public or private transportation or riding in for-hire vehicles. More information: coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home or call 1-888-364-3065.All non-essential workers must continue to work from home and schools will […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘As Sick as I’ve Ever Been in My Life’ One Survivor’s First-Person Account of Grappling with the Coronavirus (Editor’s Note: This narrative was supplied to the Broadsheet by a Battery Park City resident who has asked to remain anonymous.) When I first heard about this, back in late […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage A Personal Appreciation: Michael Sorkin A Friend and Comrade of the Late Architect Recalls Battles Waged on Behalf of the Community Author, architect, critic, and scholar, Michael Sorkin: “Tribeca – and its surrounding neighborhoods — are among the most ‘at risk’ for the loss of an architecture and […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage A Bear Market for Apartments Downtown Residential Real Estate on Life Support As business activity ground to a halt in March due to the pandemic coronavirus, the market for apartments in Lower Manhattan experienced something akin to a heart attack during the first quarter on this year, according […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Doing Good, Even When Not Doing Well A Local Business Struggles to Survive, By Helping Those Less Fortunate In happier times: Karen Barwick (right) and her staff, at Tribeca’s Boomerang Toys Karen Barwick, the proprietress of Boomerang Toys in Tribeca, which has been a fixture in the lives […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage An Easter Message Spiritual Guidance at a Time of Quarantine Easter Sunday and the whole world quarantined. Sounds like a bad joke or a scene from a horror movie, but it is true. Still, we greet one another in hope, (virtually) proclaiming the Good News of God’s love […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Updated Pandemic Statistics City Releases Data about Local Rates of Infection Lower Manhattan’s eight zip codes are the site of 402 confirmed cases of coronavirus, up from 309 cases on April 2, which represents an increase of approximately 30 percent. A total of 402 residents of Lower Manhattan […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Why Is This Night Different from All Others? A Lower Manhattan Religious Leader Reflects on Passover in the Time of COVID-19 Rabbi Darren Levine leads the congregation at Tamid: The Downtown Synagogue. photo: Marielle Solan Everyone agrees. Tonight will be different from any other night. Passover seders here […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pandemic Protections Federal Legislator Backs Proposal to Extend September 11 Safeguards to Coronavirus A screen shot from Monday evening’s online meeting of the Downtown Independent Democrats political club (to which all participants linked remotely, via the Internet, from their homes), during which Lower Manhattan community leader Justine Cuccia […]