Month: December 2020

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Charity Begins at Home Downtown Alliance Funds Lower Manhattan Non-Profits Alliance president Jessica Lappin: “No economic recovery will be truly successful without finding a way to support the cultural growth we’ve witnessed take hold in our neighborhood over the past several years.” The Downtown Alliance is donating $10,000...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Different Kind of Test Scores COVID Report Card for Lower Manhattan Schools Above: The Peck Slip School, where three students have tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus Below: P.S./I.S. 276, where an three teachers are reported to be infected A review of data from the New York...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Not-So-Okay Corral DOT Overrules Community Concerns about Delivery Bike Facility in Tribeca The new cargo-bike corral on Warren Street, intended for use by Whole Foods in making local deliveries. The City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has ignored calls from Community Board 1 (CB1) to address concerns of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Life and Death in the Estuary Outside Our Windows Dead menhaden in North Cove. Over the past few days, downtowners have witnessed extremes of life and death in the Hudson River—a humpback whale exploring the waterway, flipping its tail as if to wave at the Statue of Liberty;...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Liberal in the Streets, NIMBY in the Sheets’ Margaret Chin Pushes Back Against Racially Charged Pasquinade Above: The “Chinzilla” poster that critics of City Council member Margaret Chin created to express their criticism of her record. Below: Margaret Chin: “To who seek to poison the well with misinformation...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Affordable Housing is Unaffordable’ Stringer On New Yorkers Being Priced Out of Their Communities City Comptroller and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer New York City Comptroller, mayoral contender, and Lower Manhattan resident Scott Stringer took part in a candidates’ forum last Saturday, as part of the annual West Side...