Month: January 2021

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 1/22/21 ~ HRPT President Madelyn Wils, Who Oversaw Build-Out of Waterfront Park to Step Down

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Doyenne of the Estuary Departs HRPT President Who Oversaw Build-Out of Waterfront Park to Step Down Above: Music lovers relax at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park, as Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra musicians perform. Below: Outgoing Hudson River Park Trust president Madelyn Wils. Madelyn Wils, president and chief executive officer...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 1/21/21 ~ New Law Aims to Play Fair with Fowl

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News For the Birds New Law Aims to Play Fair with Fowl A woodpecker killed in a collision with a Battery Park City skyscraper. The New York City Council recently enacted new legislation that will protect birds, who are killed by the thousands each year in collisions with the...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 1/20/21 ~ National Thoughts ~ Amid These Truths, Clarity and Complexity and Better Things to Do

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News National Thoughts Amid These Truths, Clarity and Complexity and Better Things to Do More than 10,000 marchers gathered in Battery Park just days after Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, to protest policies they viewed as reprehensible. Nobody present was able to foresee that 400,000 Americans would be dead before...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 1/19/21 ~ Downtown Hotelpocalypse Continues as Two Hostelries in FiDi Go to Auction After Loan Default

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Inn-plosion Downtown Hotelpocalypse Continues as Two Hostelries Go to Auction After Loan Default Above: 126 Water Street Below: 51 Nassau Street A pair of Lower Manhattan hotels will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on Thursday, after the holding company that owns the properties was unable to...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Community Gathers at the Doors of the Museum of Jewish Heritage to Condemn Racist Symbol

Community Gathers at the Doors of the Museum of Jewish Heritage to Condemn Racist Symbol Yesterday afternoon, community members and elected officials joined with students, parents, and teachers from the Battery Park City School (PS/IS 276) in front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust to forcefully condemn the...

The BroadsheetDAILY 1/15/21 ~ Newly Completed 750-Mile Bikeway to Canada Begins in Battery Park City

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Happy Trails Newly Completed 750-Mile Bikeway Begins in Battery Park City Lower Manhattan latest landmark—the southern terminus of the longest multi-use state trail anywhere in the United States, marked by a new kiosk along the bikeway that runs parallel to West Street, near Battery Place—was unveiled on New...