Year: 2020

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....
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)