Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Let There Be Light On-Again, Off-Again Decision about Tribute in Light Revives Calls for National Parks to Manage September 11 Memorial The annual Tribute in Light consists of 88 xenon bulbs (each consuming 7,000 watts) arranged into two squares of 44 lights each, and positioned on the roof […]
Archives for August 2020
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/28/20 ~ The Fate of a Neighborhood Appeals Panel Overturns Lower Court Decision Blocking Two Bridges Developments
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Fate of a Neighborhood Appeals Panel Overturns Lower Court Decision Blocking Two Bridges Developments An architect’s rendering of the four new residential towers proposed for the Two Bridges neighborhood, which would contain more than 2,700 apartments. The tower at left is already largely complete, while the four […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/26/20 ~ ‘Schools Are Not Safe to Reopen on September 10’
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘Schools Are Not Safe to Reopen on September 10’ Lower Manhattan Principals and Teachers Sound Alarm about Fall Semester Hundreds of students from the Battery Park City School (P.S/I.S. 276) converge on the sidewalk in front of their building in September, 2018, to transform it into a vast […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/24/20 ~ The Weight of Water Discussion about Development Highlights Local Infrastructure Challenges
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Weight of Water Discussion about Development Highlights Local Infrastructure Challenges A February, 2020 water main break on South Street highlighted ongoing concerns about the capacity of local infrastructure to handle to increased load placed on the system by ongoing development. At what point does a water and […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/21/20 ~ Pretty Good Odds City Health Data Show That Slightly More Than 13 Percent of Downtown Residents Test Positive for Coronavirus
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pretty Good Odds City Health Data Show That Slightly More Than 13 Percent of Downtown Residents Test Positive for Coronavirus Out of 22,522 Lower Manhattan residents who have been tested, a total of 3,049 came back positive. While the rate of positive results for individual local zip codes […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/19/20 ~ How to Keep Shopkeepers in Their Shops ~ Kavanagh and Niou Aim to Protect Small Businesses by Offering Tax Incentives to Landlords
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage How to Keep Shopkeepers in Their Shops Kavanagh and Niou Aim to Protect Small Businesses by Offering Tax Incentives to Landlords This iconic array of small shops on Fulton Street evokes the changing retail landscape Downtown, where small businesses have been buffeted by rising rents and cut-throat competition […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/17/20 ~ Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter A trio of reports quantifies the extent to which property prices in Lower Manhattan crumbled in the three months ending June 30. A pair of analyses from Platinum Properties, a […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/14/20 ~ Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet The City plans to create 80 miles of additional bike lanes, like this one near City Hall, in the near future. A pair of new studies outlines a future for Lower […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/12/20 ~ New Doc on the Block ~ Tribeca Pediatrics Founder Gets CB1’s Blessing to Renovate Historic Seaport Building
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage New Doc on the Block Tribeca Pediatrics Founder Gets CB1’s Blessing to Renovate Historic Seaport Building The current appearance of 107 South Street, in the Seaport District Community Board 1 (CB1) is giving its approval to a proposal to alter a building within the South Street Seaport Historic […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/10/20 ~ Vigilant about the View
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Being Vigilant about the View CB1 Opposes New Restaurant Planned for Public Land Proposed in Seaport A rendering of the plan for a restaurant beneath the FDR Drive, in the Seaport neighborhood. Community Board 1 (CB1) is stating its opposition (for the fourth time) to a plan that […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/7/20 ~ Out of the Ashes After Two-Year Hiatus, Work Resumes at St. Nicholas Church
Out of the Ashes After Two-Year Hiatus, Work Resumes at St. Nicholas Church Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday led a ceremonial resumption of construction at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, within the World Trade Center complex. The building, designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava (who additionally created the nearby Oculus, also in the […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/5/20 ~ Downtown Alliance Throws Lifeline to Downtown Restaurants and Retailers
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage To Revitalize Local Enterprise Downtown Alliance Throws Lifeline to Downtown Restaurants and Retailers This iconic array of small shops on Fulton Street evokes the changing retail landscape Downtown, where small businesses have been buffeted by rising rents and cut-throat competition from e-commerce giants, along with the recent economic […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/3/20 ~ ‘W’ As in ‘Wave Goodbye’ Another Downtown Luxury Hotel Closes Its Doors
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘W’ As in ‘Wave Goodbye’ Another Downtown Luxury Hotel Closes Its Doors The W Hotel, at the corner of Washington and Albany Streets, in happier days. Lower Manhattan’s W Hotel, a 56-story trophy building (located at Albany and Washington Streets) erected amid the wave of giddy real estate […]