Year: 2021

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/27/21 ~ Nadler Proposes Expanding Nation’s Highest Appellate Panel to Match Number of Lower Courts

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Court Unpacking Scheme Nadler Proposes Expanding Nation’s Highest Appellate Panel to Match Number of Lower Courts U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler (announcing his bill in front of the Supreme Court): “Nine justices may have made sense in the 19th Century, when so many of our most important laws—covering...
Congressman Nadler

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/26/21 ~ Church Street School Co-Founder Prepares to Step Down

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘A Gifted Teacher with a Dream’ Church Street School Co-Founder Prepares to Step Down One of the founders of a Lower Manhattan institution is stepping aside. Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores announced earlier this month that, after 30 years at the helm of the Church Street School for Music and...
Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/23/21 ~ Rally Today Will Focus On Possible Fiscal Cataclysm Facing Battery Park City Condo Owners

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘The Worst-Case Scenario’ Rally Today Will Focus On Possible Fiscal Cataclysm Facing Battery Park City Condo Owners Above: Battery Park City. Below: Justine Cuccia, a co-founder of Democracy for Battery Park City (shown here leading a 2017 rally for the rights of residents) says, “the BPCA collected $338 million...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/22/21 ~ An Outbreak of Affordability in Lower Manhattan ~ Soft Rental Market Puts Downtown Apartments within Reach of Voucher Guidelines, Almost

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News An Outbreak of Affordability Soft Rental Market Puts Downtown Apartments within Reach of Voucher Guidelines, Almost One perverse boon arising from the pandemic coronavirus (and the economic slowdown that it triggered) is a slight—but significant—uptick in housing affordability in Lower Manhattan. A new study from the online real...
Wall Street

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/21/21 ~ Analysis Documents Migration Out of Lower Manhattan During Pandemic

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Depopulation of Downtown Analysis Documents Migration Out of Lower Manhattan During Pandemic An intriguing new data analysis from CBRE, the real estate services and investment firm, quantifies how many people left Lower Manhattan permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, “COVID-19 Impact on Migration Patterns,” uses change-of-address...
Maiden Lane 2021

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/20/21 ~ Postponed Park Premieres New FiDi Public Space Is Culmination of More Than a Decade of Advocacy and Planning

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Postponed Park Premieres New FiDi Public Space Is Culmination of More Than a Decade of Advocacy and Planning Above: A schematic drawing of the new park, highlighting the various design concepts that have been incorporated into different “zones” of the space. Below: Elizabeth H. Berger A new green...