Month: 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...