View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Unsuitable Federal Appeals Court Quashes Suits Against BPCA By September 11 Cleanup Workers September 11, 2001 A federal appeals court in Lower Manhattan on Monday dismissed the final cluster of personal injury lawsuits against the Battery Park City Authority (BCPA) arising from the cleanup of toxic debris following […]
Archives for September 2020
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/29/20 ~ Playing Hooky for Health More Than Half of All Students at Lower Manhattan Downtown Schools Opt for Remote Learning
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Playing Hooky for Health More Than Half of All Students at Downtown Schools Opt for Remote Learning Like elementary- and middle-school students across New York, pupils of the Battery Park City School (P.S/I.S. 276) are slated to return to the classroom today, with high school students following on […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/28/20 ~ ‘A Fraudulent Scheme’ ~ FiDi Renters Win Recompense for Years of Illegal Rent Overcharges at 63-67 Wall Street
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘A Fraudulent Scheme’ FiDi Renters Win Recompense for Years of Illegal Rent Overcharges Residents of the luxury rental tower at 63-67 Wall Street will soon be $5 million richer. Rentals tenants in a Financial District building, who sued their landlord to demand restitution for years of illegally high […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/25/20 ~ Quatrain Alley ~ Words Come to Life Amid New Installation in Battery Park City
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Quatrain Alley Words Come to Life Amid New Installation in Battery Park City Poets House—a library, creative space, and meeting place that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry, while cultivating a wider audience for the art—will celebrate its tenth anniversary in […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/24/20 ~ Make-Believe Mennonite Market Denouement ~ Amish Market to Close in Tribeca
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Make-Believe Mennonite Market Denouement Another Much Admired Downtown Small Business Says Goodbye The Amish Market in Tribeca will close its doors before the end of September. In another symptom of the life-and-death struggle being waged by small businesses against the economic downtown triggered by the pandemic coronavirus, the […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/23/20 ~ Downtown Alliance Distributes Masks at Lower Manhattan Schools
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Pedagogical Prophylaxis Alliance Distributes Masks at Lower Manhattan Schools Above: Spruce Street School dismissal, pre-pandemic. Below: Downtown Alliance president Jessica Lappin helps deliver 4,000 PPE masks to the Spruce Street School. The Downtown Alliance has distributed 28,000 personal protective equipment (PPE) masks to seven Lower Manhattan schools, for […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/22/20 ~ Bionomics Begins at Home ~ BPCA Launches Ten-Year Sustainability Plan
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Bionomics Begins at Home BPCA Launches Ten-Year Sustainability Plan The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has begun implementation of a landmark plan to “achieve progressive sustainability targets over the next decade, and lay the groundwork for continued sustainability action after 2030.” “Even in the midst of present challenges, […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/21/20 ~ Getting a Corner on the Market ~ Retail Developer Wins Years-Long Struggle for Control of Legendary Bank Building at 23 Wall Street
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Getting a Corner on the Market Retail Developer Wins Years-Long Struggle for Control of Legendary Bank Building The former headquarters of J.P. Morgan & Company at 23 Wall Street, vacant for more than a decade, may soon house new retailers. When the financial upheaval unleashed by the pandemic […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/18/20 ~ ‘How Solitary the City Has Become…’ A Downtown Photographer, Forced to Pause and Reflect, Sees New York in a New Light
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘How Solitary the City Has Become…’ A Downtown Photographer, Forced to Pause and Reflect, Sees New York in a New Light The disquieting muse: “The giant-ness of the building and its architecture, juxtaposed with this small lonely, organic figure in the stream of light, seemed to capture a […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/17/20 ~ Pull Down the Shades! City Council Backs Study of Drones to Inspect Buildings
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pull Down the Shades! City Council Backs Study of Drones to Inspect Buildings Unmanned aerial vehicles (also known as drones) may soon become a common sight outside the windows of Lower Manhattan high-rises. Lower Manhattan skies may soon be slightly more crowded. The City Council on Wednesday enacted […]
Today in History September 16 ~ Terror in a Horse-Drawn Cart on Wall Street
TODAY IN HISTORY SEPTEMBER 16 Terror in a Horse-Drawn Cart On September 11, family members and others gathered at Ground Zero to honor those killed nineteen years earlier when commercial airliners were repurposed into deadly missiles, striking a blow at the very symbol of capitalism by targeting prominent buildings in New York’s Financial District. Today, […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Urban Squatters Stake a Short-Lived Claim to Empty Lot in FiDi at 111 Washington Street
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Notorious Adverse Possession Urban Squatters Stake a Short-Lived Claim to Empty Lot in FiDi The wood fence at 111 Washington Street, into which unknown persons cut a series of elegant arches over Labor Day weekend. A Financial District lot with a turbulent history that has sat empty for […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/15/20 ~ As Century 21 Shutdown Looms, Opportunity Arises to Ponder New Uses for a Storied Temple of Commerce
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage What’s Next for the Store of the Future? As Century 21 Shutdown Looms, Opportunity Arises to Ponder New Uses for a Storied Temple of Commerce With local shoppers still mourning the impending demise of Century 21, the renowned fashion discounter, the family that owns the soon-to-be-defunct retailer may […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ A Basket of Inexorables Trump Supporters, Critics Make Their Cases in Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage A Basket of Inexorables Trump Supporters, Critics Make Their Cases in Battery Park City A member of the pro-Trump flotilla that docked at North Cove Marina on September 11 displays his true colors. In a gesture that was apparently intended to provoke and offend residents of Lower Manhattan, […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/11/20 ~ The Forgetting Curve ~ Navigating the Waters of the River Lethe
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Forgetting Curve Navigating the Waters of the River Lethe Photo: Robert Simko In the recent controversy over whether the National September 11 Memorial & Museum ought to carry on this year with the annual traditions of reading the names of people who died during the terrorist attacks […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/10/20 ~ Whose Memorial Is It, Anyway? New York Congressman Pushes for National Parks Takeover of September 11 Memorial
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Whose Memorial Is It, Anyway? New York Congressman Pushes for National Parks Takeover of September 11 Memorial The annual Tribute in Light (on the roof of the Battery Garage) is managed by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which controversially cancelled the observance this year, before executives reversed […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/9/20 ~ Priorities Pedagogical and Epidemiological ~ FiDi School Deemed Unsafe to Reopen Over Ventilation Concerns
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Priorities Pedagogical and Epidemiological FiDi School Deemed Unsafe to Reopen Over Ventilation Concerns The High School of Economics & Finance, on Trinity Place. A Lower Manhattan public school has been identified as potentially unsafe during a Department of Education (DOE) review of whether building ventilation systems meet new, higher […]
EYES TO THE SKY September 8 – 20, 2020 Planets shine all night – brilliant morning planets
EYES TO THE SKY September 8 – 20, 2020 Planets shine all night – brilliant morning planets SUN, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Artist’s rendition of our solar system. (Not to scale.) (Image: © NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech) In the evening sky, planets Jupiter and Saturn shine side by side in the south. […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/8/20 ~ Odious Edifice State Prosecutor Probes Trump Finances in FiDi 40 Wall Street Landmark
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Odious Edifice State Prosecutor Probes Trump Finances in FiDi Landmark The 70-story, Depression-Era skyscraper at 40 Wall Street, owned by Donald Trump, is the focus of a civil-fraud investigation by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The office building at 40 Wall Street figures prominently in a […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/4/20 ~ Repositories Reemergent ~ Downtown Museums Begin to Welcome Back Visitors
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Repositories Reemergent Downtown Museums Begin to Welcome Back Visitors Lower Manhattan cultural institutions are beginning to stir from their months-long lockdown. The 9/11 Tribute Museum (92 Greenwich Street, at the corner of Rector Street), reopened on September 3. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum(within the World Trade […]