Year: 2021

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/21/21 ~ Alliance Presents Downtown Live Performance Festival This Weekend

View as Webpage Stone Street Lower Manhattan’s Local News Acting Out Alliance Presents Downtown Live Performance Festival This Weekend The Downtown Alliance, in partnership with The Tank and En Garde Arts, will present Downtown Live—a free, outdoor performance festival in Lower Manhattan this weekend (Saturday and Sunday, May 22 and 23). Shows will be offered...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/20/21 ~ Bias Crime at Borough of Manhattan Community College

View as Webpage CMA CGM Marco Polo, the biggest ship yet to visit New York Harbor, arrived this morning. Lower Manhattan’s Local News Words of Hate Bias Crime at Borough of Manhattan Community College Above: “In the Line of Fire,” by Mildred Howard: An installation that evokes the contributions of African-Americans who served in America’s...
“In the Line of Fire,” by Mildred Howard

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/19/21 ~ Cost of Roof Repair at BPC’s Asphalt Green Goes Up by Half a Million Dollars

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Fixing A Hole Where The Rain Gets In…’ Cost of Roof Repair at Asphalt Green Goes Up by Half a Million Dollars The terrace overlooking the Battery Park City ballfields, which also serves as the roof for the Asphalt Green community center, is being rebuilt at a cost...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/18/21 ~ Fewer Local High School Students Apply for College Financial Aid

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Considering a Gap Year Fewer Local High School Students Apply for College Financial Aid In what may augur a lingering social impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, data compiled by a national clearinghouse for information about college applications and admissions shows that five local high schools, either located in...

Eyes to the Sky May 17 – 30, 2021 Look west to Gemini’s Castor and Pollux and to Mars, Mercury and Venus

Eyes to the Sky May 17 – 30, 2021 Look west to Gemini’s Castor and Pollux and to Mars, Mercury and Venus Double star Castor photographed moving in space and time. Image courtesy of New Mexico-based astrophotographer Kent DeGroff. All rights reserved. As twilight deepens tonight, beginning around 9:30pm, locate the crescent moon in the...
Double star Castor photographed moving in space and time. Image courtesy of New Mexico-based astrophotographer Kent DeGroff. All rights reserved.

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 5/17/21 ~ Multiple New Bikes Lanes Coming to Lower Manhattan, Adding to Growing Local Network

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Valorizing Velocipedes Multiple New Bikes Lanes Coming to Lower Manhattan, Adding to Growing Local Network The plan announced by Mayor de Blasio amid much fanfare earlier this year—to dedicate one traffic lane, on the Manhattan-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge, for conversion into a two-lane bike path—has been...