View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Sufficient Unto the Dey Lottery Opens for New Affordable Apartments in Financial District Building Above: The front entrance of 7 Dey Street (known more colloquially as 185 Broadway), where 63 rent-stabilized, affordable apartments will soon be awarded by lottery to applicants who qualify. Below: The tower…
Month: September 2021
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/14/21 ~ ‘It Will Be Very Easy’ New Governor Plans to Get BPC Opinions Regarding Essential Workers Monument
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ‘It Will Be Very Easy’ New Governor Plans to Get BPC Opinions Regarding Essential Workers Monument Above: Newly installed Governor Kathy Hochul, who wants to continue with plans for an Essential Workers Monument in Battery Park City. Below: Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who resigned in disgrace…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/13/21 ~ A Pillar of the Community Passes from the Scene ~ In Memoriam: Gus Ouranitsas
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper In Memoriam: Gus Ouranitsas A Pillar of the Community Passes from the Scene Maria and Gus Ouranitsas, with their three grown children (from left): Nestor, Marina, and Konstantine. Konstantinos (Gus) Ouranitsas, a pillar of the Battery Park City community and the longtime Resident Manager of the…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/10/21 ~ The Aftermath A Resident’s Recollections from the Months After September 11, 2001
View as Webpage The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper The Aftermath A Resident’s Recollections from the Months After September 11, 2001 By Michelle Ashkin Everybody asks me what it is like to live “down there.” They mean, of course, near Ground Zero, which is a block away from my front door. The sounds, smells, and…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 9/9/21 ~ Wondering Whether You Have Been Worth the Windfall
View as Webpage The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Wondering Whether You Have Been Worth the Windfall You recall the frenetic chaos—people wandering blithely into traffic, while cars with flashing lights and bleating sirens tried to make lurching progress by driving on sidewalks. And everyone staring upward, transfixed. Even amid the bedlam, one anomalously serene (even…
The Broadsheet ~ EYES TO THE SKY September 6 – 19, 2021 Reach out to Jupiter, Saturn all night
EYES TO THE SKY September 6 – 19, 2021 Reach out to Jupiter, Saturn all night Look west after sunset for the young moon’s return around September 8, 2021. Watch day by day as the waxing crescent sweeps past Venus and moves closer to Antares, Heart of Scorpius the Scorpion. Courtesy EarthSky.org Planet Jupiter shines…