Author: Matthew Fenton

The BroadsheetDAILY – 9/14/22 – Declining Apartment Rents and Spiking Office Vacancies Signal Soft Property Market

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Lower Manhattan Gets a Bit Lower Declining Apartment Rents and Spiking Office Vacancies Signal Soft Property Market The Downtown Alliance has released its summary of Lower Manhattan real estate indicators for the second quarter of 2022, and most signs point to a slowdown in the...

The BroadsheetDAILY – 9/13/22 – Whose Park Is It, Anyway?

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Whose Park Is It, Anyway? City Agency Plans to Fence Off Five Thousand Square Feet of Battery for Storage Above: The site of the former Beer Gardens at the View restaurant is slated to become a parking and equipment storage facility. Below right: The current...

The BroadsheetDAILY – 9/12/22 – Vaccine Void

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Vaccine Void Kids in Southern Battery Park City Among Least Protected Against Polio More than four in ten children in southern Battery Park City fail to meet the threshold of three polio shots by age five, according to data from City health officials. Amid rising...

The BroadsheetDAILY – 9/7/22 – Whither Wagner?

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Whither Wagner? Opponents of the Resiliency Plan Rally as BPCA Plans Imminent Closure and Revamp of Park On August 16, people gathered in Wagner Park to rally for changes to the resiliency plan. As the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) prepares to close Wagner Park...

The BroadsheetDAILY – 9/6/22 – Lower Manhattan Picks a New Member of Congress, and Returns a State Senator to Albany

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Capital Considerations Lower Manhattan Picks a New Member of Congress, and Returns a State Senator to Albany Brian Kavanagh, left, received the Democratic party nomination to represent Lower Manhattan in the New York State Senate. Dan Goldman, right, is the likely victor in the Congressional...

The BroadsheetDAILY – 7/28/22 – New Ferry Operators Mull Transition from Vegetable Oil to Voltage

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Electric Dreams New Ferry Operators Mull Transition from Vegetable Oil to Voltage Pier 15, at the South Street Seaport, where the new ferry to Elizabeth, New Jersey, is scheduled to dock. A new ferry will soon begin serving Lower Manhattan. On August 15, the Elizabeth...