Month: April 2020

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...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage To the Vector… Lower Manhattan’s Position as a Nexus Belies Modest Local Infection Tally The buildings at 32 and 42 Broadway, where the City’s Board of Elections is headquartered, has become a local hotspot for the pandemic coronavirus, with 15 staff members testing positive for the disease. A...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Resilience, in the Original Sense of the Word Facing Adversity, One Community Leader Tries to Lead By Example In the days following September 11, 2001, Bob Townley called the community together at the basketball court at the intersection of Canal Street and Avenue of the Americas. Bob Townley,...

Virtual Events Available to All Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field Photo essay National Museum of the American Indian Virgil and Isabel Trujillo in their family apple orchard. Virgil Trujillo manages part of Abiquiú’s centuries-old acequias, or communal irrigation system. It combines Spanish and Indigenous practices to direct water into fields. “Our identity is...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pandemic Statistics City Releases Data about Local Rates of Infection Lower Manhattan’s eight zip codes are the site of 309 confirmed cases of coronavirus. A total of 309 residents of Lower Manhattan (among 724 who have been tested) are confirmed to have been infected by the pandemic coronavirus,...