Author: Matthew Fenton

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Charity Begins Close to Home Trinity Church Awards Grants to 14 Lower Manhattan Public-Service Groups Trinity’s priest-in-charge, the Reverend Phil Jackson: “While New York City is showing signs of recovery after the past two years of the pandemic, we can’t ignore the serious issues we...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage ‘Show Me the Records!’ Adams Agrees to Discuss Release of Documents from 2001 about City Hall’s Awareness of Ground Zero Health Risks September 11, 2001: Lower Manhattan is engulfed by the dust from the collapsing World Trade Center. Photograph by the NYPD Mayor Eric Adams...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Rebuild, Rather Than Replace CB1 Wants Tribeca’s Cobblestone Streets Preserved, But Made Safe The scene today on Vestry Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets, facing west. The preservation of cobblestone street surfaces is widely perceived to contribute to the historic character of Tribeca, but poor...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage A Bit of a Reach BPCA Previews Competing Visions for Resiliency Plans to Safeguard Esplanade These are the seven “reaches” or zones into which resiliency planners have divided the Battery Park City waterfront. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) hosted an open house meeting about...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Ned Gains Private Club and Event Space Slated Coming to Former American Stock Exchange Above: A historical view of the legacy trading floor of the American Stock Exchange building, which offers more than tens of thousands of square feet of space, uninterrupted by columns, with...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Local Heroes Alliance Acknowledges Excellence in Service by Five Downtown Leaders Chef and author Rocco DiSpirto, Susan Nitahara (widow of late CB1 chair Anthony Notaro), Jessica Lappin (president of the Downtown Alliance) and Wellington Chen (executive director of the Chinatown Partnership) at the Downtown Alliance’s...