Month: April 2020

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...