Month: December 2020

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The BroadsheetDAILY will return on January 4. Happy Holidays to all of our readers! An End to Screen Time City Announces Public School Admissions Changes with Significant Impact for Lower Manhattan Highly regarded local middle schools, such as P.S/I.S. 276, in Battery Park City, will no longer be...

View as Webpage On December 18, Jupiter (brighter) and Saturn were photographed in the southwest sky from Lower Manhattan at sunset. Scroll down to Eyes to the Sky for details on tonight’s rare celestial alignment. Lower Manhattan’s Local News Snow dude waiting for a game on the ballfields. Photo: courtesy BPCA Clamping Down on Vice...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘We Have a History of Being Good Neighbors’ Non-Profit Outlines Plan for ‘Safe Haven’ Shelter on Washington Street The onetime Downtown Community House, at 105 Washington Street, is slated to return to its historic roots with conversion into a homeless shelter. The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio...

Eyes to the Sky Jupiter and Saturn closest meeting in centuries on the 21st: get ready! Artist’s concept of Jupiter and Saturn in December of 2020, as viewed from a space-based perspective. Their conjunction will be December 21. See the moon in this drawing? It’ll be along our line of sight to the planets around...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Trolley Lolly BPCA Funds Connection Shuttle for Two More Years The Downtown Connection shuttle, which ferries passengers free of charge between more than 30 local stops that link residential areas with business and shopping districts, is operated by the Downtown Alliance, in partnership with the Battery Park City...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Everything Old Is New Again Lower Manhattan’s First House of Worship Gets a Facelift Above: A rendering of the new stained-glass window planned for Trinity Church. Below: The existing window, which is a modern replacement of a now-vanished historic original, has fallen into serious disrepair. The ongoing evolution...