View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Uneasiness about the Easements City Moves Forward with Plan to Make Sidewalk Dining Permanent, Despite Objections from Downtown Leaders Above: Outdoor dining in the Financial District. Below: State Assembly member Deborah Glick: “The focus must be on working to ensure that the parameters of any new…
Month: November 2021
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/16/21 ~ City Poised to Reveal Plans for East River Landfill as Bulwark Against Flooding
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper A Seawall for the Seaport City Poised to Reveal Plans for East River Landfill as Bulwark Against Flooding An outline of the area originally studied for the 2013 Seaport City proposal, which is now back in active consideration, in modified form. In its waning weeks, the…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/15/21 ~ District Leader and Community Activist Vittoria Fariello Launches Campaign for State Senate
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ‘I Want to Amplify These Voices and Bring Them to Albany’ District Leader and Community Activist Vittoria Fariello Launches Campaign for State Senate Above, District Leader and community activist Vittoria Fariello kicks off her State Senate campaign at Chatham Square. Below right, Ms. Fariello with her…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/12/21 ~ Wagnerian Woes ~ Battery Park City Hotel Operator Implodes Amid Allegations of Fraud
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Wagnerian Woes Battery Park City Hotel Operator Implodes Amid Allegations of Fraud The Wagner Hotel, in Battery Park City, owes millions of dollars to the Battery Park City Authority and New York State tax collectors. Even by the standards of the distressed hotel industry, the spiraling…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ~ Man Threatens and Robs Multiple Women in Downtown Subway Stations
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Opportunity Makes a Thief Man Threatens and Robs Multiple Women in Downtown Subway Stations A suspect (still at large) believed by police to have threatened and robbed three women at Lower Manhattan subway stations. A man has been accosting and robbing women in Lower Manhattan subway…
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/9/21 ~ ‘We Can’t Tell You That’ ~. Meeting Tonight to Organize In Favor of Affordability and Against Secrecy
View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper ‘We Can’t Tell You That’ Meeting Tonight to Organize In Favor of Affordability and Against Secrecy A rendering of the 78-floor building (shown at right) planned for Five World Trade Center, which local activists and elected officials want reconceived to include more affordability than the 25…