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Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pandemic Protections Federal Legislator Backs Proposal to Extend September 11 Safeguards to Coronavirus A screen shot from Monday evening’s online meeting of the Downtown Independent Democrats political club (to which all participants linked remotely, via the Internet, from their homes), during which Lower Manhattan community leader Justine Cuccia […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage To the Vector… Lower Manhattan’s Position as a Nexus Belies Modest Local Infection Tally The buildings at 32 and 42 Broadway, where the City’s Board of Elections is headquartered, has become a local hotspot for the pandemic coronavirus, with 15 staff members testing positive for the disease. A […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Resilience, in the Original Sense of the Word Facing Adversity, One Community Leader Tries to Lead By Example In the days following September 11, 2001, Bob Townley called the community together at the basketball court at the intersection of Canal Street and Avenue of the Americas. Bob Townley, […]

Virtual Events Available to All Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field Photo essay National Museum of the American Indian Virgil and Isabel Trujillo in their family apple orchard. Virgil Trujillo manages part of Abiquiú’s centuries-old acequias, or communal irrigation system. It combines Spanish and Indigenous practices to direct water into fields. “Our identity is […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pandemic Statistics City Releases Data about Local Rates of Infection Lower Manhattan’s eight zip codes are the site of 309 confirmed cases of coronavirus. A total of 309 residents of Lower Manhattan (among 724 who have been tested) are confirmed to have been infected by the pandemic coronavirus, […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pine Street at rush hour photo: Michael Devereaux Role Reversal Downtown Food Festival Supports Local Restaurants by Feeding Healthcare Workers The ever-popular Taste of Tribeca food festival has been cancelled for this year, but the organizers are rallying support to help the now-struggling restaurants that have contributed food […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Editor’s Note: Monday’s edition of the BroadsheetDAILY incorrectly stated that a Battery Park City resident was taken from an apartment at 280 Rector Street over the weekend, by an ambulance crew dressed in full hazard suits and wearing respirators. This event took place on Thursday, March 26, and […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The USNS COMFORT passes Lower Manhattan this morning. Photo: Jeff Galloway Grim Harbingers Local Luminaries Claimed by Pandemic, with Tally of Losses Poised to Grow A truck parked on Spruce Street, outside of New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, that appears to be intended for use as a temporary morgue. […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Where to Get Care Lower Manhattan Health Resources for Residents with Concerns The CityMD urgent care facility in Tribeca, at 87 Chambers Street, is one of five non-emergency clinics that remain open in Lower Manhattan. Government officials are asking that people with non-urgent health problems avoid showing up […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Desperate Times for Street Food Vendors Council Member and Advocacy Group Petition for Funds and to Suspend Most Enforcement Actions Toward Food Carts Street vendors, who are mostly ineligible for benefits like unemployment or health insurance, have recently suffered losses of more than 80 percent of their usual […]

View as Webpage photo: Jeff Galloway Lower Manhattan’s Local News Comfort and Mercy Navy Hospital Ships Dispatched to New York and Los Angeles The hospital ship USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty on her previous operational deployment to New York, in the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Two military vessels […]

Child’s Play at the Battery Local kids help break ground for the Battery Playscape Joined by elected officials, Lower Manhattan leaders, and a couple of excited Downtown kids, the Battery Conservancy broke ground on March 12 for the Battery Playscape, an unusual playground for children of all ages and abilities. To open in Spring of […]

View as Webpage photo: Jeff Galloway Contact The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Niou Deal Assembly Member Proposes Finance Reform as Funding Mechanism for Affordable Housing State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou: “When you go shopping in New York City, how much extra do you pay for sales tax? This transfer tax of one-half of […]

WANTED: Your Coronavirus story in one hundred words. Photo welcome, but not necessary. Please send an email to editor@ebroadsheet.com to let us know how you are managing during these trying times. ———————————————————————————– coveni covidi covici Maryna Lansky —————————————————————————— To the editor, I went down to lower Manhattan on Monday to take photos of Pier 15 on […]

View as Webpage Contact The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local News Going to the Mattresses Lower Manhattan Hunkers Down, as Coronavirus Crisis Grinds On Multiple residents of Lower Manhattan have now tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, including one tenant at Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City, who has been hospitalized and is breathing with the […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Looking at a Map of Weekend Travel Ideas WANTED: Your Coronavirus story in one hundred words. Photo welcome, but not necessary. Please send an email to editor@ebroadsheet.com to let us know how you are managing during these trying times. To the editor: I’ve lived in lower Manhattan for […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Necessity Is the Mother of Intervention Repurposing of Rivington House Might Help Meet Need for Clinical Capacity Arising from Pandemic Rivington House on the Lower East Side A Lower Manhattan building steeped in controversy may become a lifeline for people infected by the pandemic COVID-19 virus. In a […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Community Contagion Additional Cases of Corona Virus Reported in Lower Manhattan More confirmed and possible cases of the pandemic COVID-19 virus have been linked to Lower Manhattan. Two employees of the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, leading that facility’s owner, the Intercontinental […]

Church Street School Celebrates 30 Years Art and Music School Honors Local Family Church Street School of Music and Art could not have made it to its 30th birthday without the support of families like the Kleimans of Battery Park City. This year, in celebration of 30 years of music and art making, the school […]

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Meditations in an Emergency Our Hometown and the Myth of Eternal Return You tell yourself that you’ve seen this story before, and more than once: edifices falling; waters rising. And you reflect that the worst situations are not those that can’t get any worse. The worst situations are […]