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Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Vaulting Ambition Plan Floated to Span East River with Arch Containing Thousands of Apartments and New Transit Portal A view (looking northward, along the FDR Drive) lends perspective on what will, if built, be the largest building in the world in terms of […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com The Weekend Calendar December 7 & 8 Listen to the sounds of the season Saturday December 7 9AM – 1PM Chess Tournament 6 River Terrace Challenge yourself in a Swiss-style tournament where each participant will have the opportunity to compete, learn and develop […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Putting the Art Back into an Artifact A Living Remnant of a Vibrant Culture Comes to Battery Place “The Sorceress,” a uniquely Jewish fairy tale about an innocent young heroine, her dashing fiance, a devious stepmother, and a scheming witch, is being presented […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Extreme Makeover How a Nazi Sympathizer’s Tribeca Garage Could Become a Luxe Mansion The builder’s plans call for a 17,000-square-foot private home that will contain four bedrooms, ten bathrooms, a multi-car garage, and a basement-level indoor basketball court, as well as outdoor patio […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com What If All This Is Not Enough? Pondering Whether $300 Million and 16.5 Feet of Protection Will Matter 85 Broad Street parking garage after Sandy At the October 29 meeting of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) board, Catherine McVay Hughes raised a […]

Calendar Tuesday 12/4/19     10AM Luminaries Winter Garden This holiday tradition in the heart of Lower Manhattan features a canopy of colorful lights emanating from hundreds of suspended lanterns.This interactive exhibit features three Wishing Stations located on the ground that will allow visitors to send a touch-activated wish to the canopy of lanterns above, […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Connection Reduction CB1 to Consider Cutbacks in Number of Stops on Free Bus Service A map illustrating the planned cutbacks in the number of stops served by the Downtown Connection free shuttle bus. Each of the nine triangles marked with an “X” represents […]

RiverWatch Cruise Ships in New York Harbor   Arrivals & Departures ——————————————————————— Sunday, December 8 Anthem of the Seas Inbound 5:30 am (Bayonne); outbound 3:00 pm  Southern Caribbean Queen Mary 2 Inbound 6:00 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm  Transatlantic (Southampton, UK) Friday, December 13 Norwegian Gem Inbound 9:15 am; outbound 3:30 pm; Port Canaveral, FL/Bahamas […]

Calendar Tuesday 12/3/19     10:30AM Zumba Jumpstart 6 River Terrace Join a fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and more! Enthusiastic instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new steps each week. Bring your friends and share in this fit and fun dancing community. The Battery Park […]

Today in History December 3 Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart 1800 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for President and Vice President that resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. 1901 – In a State of the Union message, President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the […]

Calendar Monday 12/2/19 Tribeca 2PM Culture Connections National Museum of the American Indian Touch, investigate, inquire and learn. Objects and images tell profound stories. Join Cultural Interpreters as they share objects and narratives in the museum’s galleries. Gain a deeper understanding of history, culture, and art from hundreds of Indigenous nations in North, Central, and […]

Arts and Minds Highly Regarded Local Arts Education Group Stays the Course Mateo Vergara, age 7 and a student at the Peck Slip School, taking his second drum lesson at Church Street School To stroll in Tribeca in 2019 is to apprehend what is happening throughout Lower Manhattan. Buildings – along with their occupants and […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Arts and Minds Highly Regarded Local Arts Education Group Stays the Course Mateo Vergara, age 7 and a student at the Peck Slip School, taking his second drum lesson at Church Street School To stroll in Tribeca in 2019 is to apprehend what […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Quid Pro No? FiDi Renters Seek Recompense for Years of Rent Overcharges; Landlord Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Overrule Tenants’ Victory A map, compiled by New York University’s Furman Center (which advances research and debate on housing, neighborhoods, and urban policy)illustrating the dozens […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Artists-Not-In-Residence Your Next Neighbors Might Be Vastly Less Interesting, But Better Able to Pay High Rents Even as public art proliferates in Lower Manhattan (seen here in the form of a new mural at the World Trade Center), artists themselves are being driven […]