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…
Month: 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…