Archives for June 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Vendor, Vidi, Vici Advocacy Group and Council Member and Score Win for Street Vendors Street vendors—who are mostly ineligible for benefits like unemployment or health insurance, and have recently suffered losses of more than 80 percent of their usual revenue—will no longer be subject to enforcement by the […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage A Leader Takes Leave CB1’s Outgoing Chair Reflects on Decades of Service as He Passes the Torch Anthony Notaro has been a member of Community Board 1 for two decades, and has served as its chair since 2016. Anthony Notaro, a Lower Manhattan community leader for decades and […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Tally Dally The Election Is Over, But the Counting Continues Incumbent Yuh-Line Niou The preliminary results in the contested race to represent the 65th Assembly District (which stretches from the Battery to Vesey Street on the West Side and traces a jagged line between Broadway and the East […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Centre Stage City Plans Black Lives Matter Street Mural for Lower Manhattan Mayor de Blasio helps paint the mural in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn last week. Lower Manhattan will soon have new piece of street art: the Administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has commissioned a Black […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Editor’s Note: Today, Tuesday, June 23, voters in the Democratic primary will effectively decide the race for the State Assembly seat representing the 65th District in Lower Manhattan, which stretches from the Battery to Vesey Street on the West Side and traces a jagged line between Broadway and […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Five Questions for Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou An Agenda Driven By Public Health, Economic Justice, and Bottom-Up Constituent Concerns State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou Editor’s Note: Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 23) voters in the Democratic primary will effectively decide the race for the State Assembly seat representing the 65th […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Five Questions for Assembly Candidate Grace Lee An Emphasis on Reform, Recovery, and Relief Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, June 23, voters in the Democratic primary will effectively decide the race for the State Assembly seat representing the 65th District in Lower Manhattan, which stretches from the Battery to […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Race and Class A Lower Manhattan Community Leader Considers How Much Has Changed and How Much Still Needs To Change CB1’s Pat Moore: “Young people would tell me I haven’t had their experiences and they’re right. But I know how much has changed and that not all cops […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Race and Class A Lower Manhattan Community Leader Considers How Much Has Changed and How Much Still Needs To Change CB1’s Pat Moore: “Young people would tell me I haven’t had their experiences and they’re right. But I know how much has changed and that not all cops […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Shack Attack After Officers Are Accidentally Sickened at Downtown Shake Shack, Police Unions Allege Deliberate Poisoning The Shake Shack at the Fulton Transit Center, where three officers were accidentally sickened by contaminated milk shakes. Three NYPD officers were hospitalized on Monday evening, after ingesting what they believed was […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pushing for Peace of Mind Local Leaders Urge Heightened Federal Response to September 11 Mental Health Issues On September 15, 2001, Lower Manhattan residents, traumatized yet resolute, assembled at a Canal Street basketball court to hear from community leaders like Bob Townley (at left, addressing the crowd) and […]

Eyes to the Sky  June 15 – 28, 2020 Summer Solstice – June 20, 2020 Every day is Sun day for the month of June, when the Sun is up for 15 hours plus a few minutes most days and darkness prevails, most days, for a few minutes less than 9 hours. The longest days of the […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘A Fraudulent Scheme to Evade the Rent Stabilization Laws’ FiDi Renters Seek Recompense for Years of Rent Overcharges; U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Overturn Tenants’ Victory A map, compiled by New York University’s Furman Center (which advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy) illustrating the dozens […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Bull Headed City Pushes Plan to Move Iconic Sculpture Away from Bowling Green “Charging Bull,” the iconic bronze statue that has been staring down Broadway, near Bowling Green, since 1989. The City’s Public Design Commission (PDC) is slated to consider on Monday a controversial plan that would move […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Changing Lanes CB1 Wants to Claim Park of the Pike for Cyclists A proposal to create more space for cyclists would close to traffic the right lane of the southbound side of West Street, between Canal and Chambers Streets. Community Board 1 (CB1) is calling upon City and […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘When People Answer that All Lives Matter, They are Lying’ A Lifelong Resident of Downtown Considers Blackness Within a Bubble of Privilege “This community exists largely in a bubble,” reflects Mariama James, a local leader who serves as the co-chair of the Quality of Life Committee of Community […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Gauges Become Less Grim Fourteen New Cases, and One Additional Death in Lower Manhattan A weekly statistical update from the City’s Department of Health indicates that 68 residents of Lower Manhattan have died from the pandemic coronavirus, while 797 have tested positive for the disease. A New York […]

Planes circle the Statue of Liberty towing banners that read “Congratulations to Federal State of New China!” View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Flight of Fancy Chinese Exile and Ex-Trump Advisor Fill the Skies over Lower Manhattan with Proclamations of a New Nation Republican political strategist Steve Bannon and fugitive Chinese billionaire Miles Guo […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Judge Not Downtown Non-Profit Sues to Gain Release of Protestors Demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis take a knee outside the Municipal Building on Tuesday evening, June 2, 2020. A non-profit based in Lower Manhattan is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) to obtain […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News COVID Compensation CB1 Endorses Push to Expand VCF Coverage to Pandemic Illness A community leader has proposed that federal programs aiding September 11 first responders and survivors be expanded to cover the pandemic coronavirus. Community Board 1 (CB1) has signed on to a campaign that aims to expand […]