Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Weight of Water Discussion about Development Highlights Local Infrastructure Challenges A February, 2020 water main break on South Street highlighted ongoing concerns about the capacity of local infrastructure to handle to increased load placed on the system by ongoing development. At what point does a water and […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/21/20 ~ Pretty Good Odds City Health Data Show That Slightly More Than 13 Percent of Downtown Residents Test Positive for Coronavirus
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Pretty Good Odds City Health Data Show That Slightly More Than 13 Percent of Downtown Residents Test Positive for Coronavirus Out of 22,522 Lower Manhattan residents who have been tested, a total of 3,049 came back positive. While the rate of positive results for individual local zip codes […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/19/20 ~ How to Keep Shopkeepers in Their Shops ~ Kavanagh and Niou Aim to Protect Small Businesses by Offering Tax Incentives to Landlords
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage How to Keep Shopkeepers in Their Shops Kavanagh and Niou Aim to Protect Small Businesses by Offering Tax Incentives to Landlords This iconic array of small shops on Fulton Street evokes the changing retail landscape Downtown, where small businesses have been buffeted by rising rents and cut-throat competition […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/17/20 ~ Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Putting the ‘Down’ in Downtown Real Estate Local Apartment Rents and Sales Prices Tumbled in the Second Quarter A trio of reports quantifies the extent to which property prices in Lower Manhattan crumbled in the three months ending June 30. A pair of analyses from Platinum Properties, a […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/14/20 ~ Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Velodrome Visionary Plans for Getting Around Downtown Focus on Two Wheels and Two Feet The City plans to create 80 miles of additional bike lanes, like this one near City Hall, in the near future. A pair of new studies outlines a future for Lower […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/12/20 ~ New Doc on the Block ~ Tribeca Pediatrics Founder Gets CB1’s Blessing to Renovate Historic Seaport Building
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage New Doc on the Block Tribeca Pediatrics Founder Gets CB1’s Blessing to Renovate Historic Seaport Building The current appearance of 107 South Street, in the Seaport District Community Board 1 (CB1) is giving its approval to a proposal to alter a building within the South Street Seaport Historic […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/10/20 ~ Vigilant about the View
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Being Vigilant about the View CB1 Opposes New Restaurant Planned for Public Land Proposed in Seaport A rendering of the plan for a restaurant beneath the FDR Drive, in the Seaport neighborhood. Community Board 1 (CB1) is stating its opposition (for the fourth time) to a plan that […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/7/20 ~ Out of the Ashes After Two-Year Hiatus, Work Resumes at St. Nicholas Church
Out of the Ashes After Two-Year Hiatus, Work Resumes at St. Nicholas Church Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday led a ceremonial resumption of construction at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, within the World Trade Center complex. The building, designed by renowned architect Santiago Calatrava (who additionally created the nearby Oculus, also in the […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/5/20 ~ Downtown Alliance Throws Lifeline to Downtown Restaurants and Retailers
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage To Revitalize Local Enterprise Downtown Alliance Throws Lifeline to Downtown Restaurants and Retailers This iconic array of small shops on Fulton Street evokes the changing retail landscape Downtown, where small businesses have been buffeted by rising rents and cut-throat competition from e-commerce giants, along with the recent economic […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 8/3/20 ~ ‘W’ As in ‘Wave Goodbye’ Another Downtown Luxury Hotel Closes Its Doors
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘W’ As in ‘Wave Goodbye’ Another Downtown Luxury Hotel Closes Its Doors The W Hotel, at the corner of Washington and Albany Streets, in happier days. Lower Manhattan’s W Hotel, a 56-story trophy building (located at Albany and Washington Streets) erected amid the wave of giddy real estate […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Inundation Exhortation Federal Report Foresees More Frequent Flooding for Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Inundation Exhortation Federal Report Foresees More Frequent Flooding for Lower Manhattan Flooding at the Battery (seen here during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy) may become a once-every-three-days event in decades ahead, according to a new federal report. A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 29 ~ Ill Deeds Done Bill Would Impede Easing Restrictions on Use of Health Facilities
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Ill Deeds Done Bill Would Impede Easing Restrictions on Use of Health Facilities Rivington House, which operated for decades as a nursing facility, but was closed when purchased by real estate speculators who planned to convert the 150,000-square-foot structure into luxury condominiums. A bill recently ratified by the […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 7/29/20 ~ Referendum Addendum
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Referendum Addendum One Month Later, Election Results Are Official (Sort Of…) Yuh-Line Niou Slightly more than a month after the contested primary for the Democratic Party nomination to represent Lower Manhattan in the State Assembly, something resembling a final result is available. On Wednesday, incumbent Yuh-Line Niou and […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 7/24/20 ~ Welcome to the Occupation Protestors Driven from City Hall Park Consider What They Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Occupation Protestors Driven from City Hall Park Consider What They Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done The Occupy City Hall encampment, which was demolished by police on Wednesday. In the hours before dawn on Wednesday morning, NYPD officers in riot gear swept through the […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 22 ~ Weir and When Thursday Meeting To Review Resiliency Plans for Northern Battery Park City
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Weir and When Thursday Online Meeting Will Review Resiliency Plans for Northern Battery Park City One design concept under consideration for the Esplanade on Battery Park City’s northern edge would extend the walkway more than 20 feet into the water, creating space for new anti-flooding infrastructure, as well […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 20 ~ ‘I Can’t Rule Out Sleeping in the Streets If I’m Forced Out of Here’ Group of Elderly Battery Park City Residents Face Loss of Their Homes as Affordability Protections Sunset
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage ‘I Can’t Rule Out Sleeping in the Streets If I’m Forced Out of Here’ Group of Elderly Battery Park City Residents Face Loss of Their Homes as Affordability Protections Sunset The residential building at 225 Rector, where 17 elderly residents are facing the threat of eviction. More than […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Quasi-Rent Stabilization Ends at Gateway Plaza Affordability Protections Replaced by Ten-Year Cap on Rent Increases
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Quasi-Rent Stabilization Ends at Gateway Plaza Affordability Protections Replaced by Ten-Year Cap on Rent Increases The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) announced on Wednesday an agreement with the LeFrak Organization (operator of Gateway Plaza, the community’s largest residential complex) that will roll back affordability guarantees for the dwindling […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 15 ~ Special Cay Governors Island Reopens for Truncated Season, as Momentous Decisions Loom
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Special Cay Governors Island Reopens for Truncated Season, as Momentous Decisions Loom Governors Island Today (Wednesday, July 15), Governors Island will reopen for the summer season—a milestone originally scheduled for May 1, but delayed due to the pandemic coronavirus. The offerings at the park—which has come to be […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Who Got What: Federal Loan Program Bails Out Local Small (and Not-So-Small) Businesses
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Who Got What: Battery Park City Federal Loan Program Bails Out Local Small (and Not-So-Small) Businesses The Museum of Jewish Heritage (Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series of stories detailing the impact of federal bailout funds on Lower Manhattan businesses.) The federal Paycheck Protection […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 10 ~ Finalists Announced in Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge
Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Higher, Wider, Handsomer Finalists Announced in Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge On some weekends, as many as 15,000 pedestrians and 3,600 cyclists compete with each other and souvenir vendors for as little as 10 feet of width on the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, […]