Author: Matthew Fenton

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Take Your Pick, But Get Out Your Checkbook Many Vacant Apartments in Lower Manhattan, As Average Rents Skyrocket The number of vacant apartments in Lower Manhattan is increasing. A new analysis from online real estate database company, StreetEasy, shows that the number of vacant apartments...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT A Long Row to Hoe CB1 Pushes Vision to Beautify Downtown Thoroughfare Closed for Decades Above: This aerial view (looking south along Park Row, from Chatham Square toward the Brooklyn Bridge) illustrates the beautification measures proposed for a major Downtown Street that...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Note to readers: The BroadsheetDAILY will not publish on Monday, June 20, in deference to the federal holiday of Juneteenth. We’ll be back in your inbox on June 21. Still Working on ‘Absolute Equality’ Juneteenth Observance Planned for Tomorrow Above: In 1838, abolitionist Frederick Douglass...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Wentworth Downtown Lower Manhattan City Council Rep Seeks Conversion of Local Jail to Women’s Facility, In Lieu of Demolition and Reconstruction Above: City Council member Christopher Marte: “With minor renovations, the South Tower could easily be converted to an all-female facility for the women currently...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage The Madding Crowd Your Share of Space Downtown Comes to 535 Square Feet Updated census data and demographic metrics from the Population Fact Finder compiled by the Department of City Planning (DCP) indicate that the headcount of residents in Community District 1 (CD1), a collection...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage CB1 Opposes Demolition of Wagner Park Pavilion Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday Morning Will Review Controversial Plan The BPCA’s plan calls for demolition of the Wagner Park pavilion, and its replacement with a large structure, set atop a new hill—with both designs to hold back...