View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Concourse Considerations BPCA Prepares Preliminary Steps to Implement South End Avenue Plan South End Avenue, which functions as the equivalent of Main Street for Battery Park City’s southern neighborhood, has been the focus of a years-long effort to reach consensus on redesigning the thoroughfare. The Battery Park City […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/28/21 ~ Detention Abstention ~ Downtown Non-Profit Sues to Halt Arrest for Minor Offenses
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Detention Abstention Downtown Non-Profit Sues to Halt Arrest for Minor Offenses Above: Protestors take over West Street last July 4. The Legal Aid Society alleges that many of these demonstrators were illegally arrested by police, in contravention of a State law that mandates the issuance of summonses for […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/27/21 ~ Nadler Proposes Expanding Nation’s Highest Appellate Panel to Match Number of Lower Courts
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Court Unpacking Scheme Nadler Proposes Expanding Nation’s Highest Appellate Panel to Match Number of Lower Courts U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler (announcing his bill in front of the Supreme Court): “Nine justices may have made sense in the 19th Century, when so many of our most important laws—covering […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/26/21 ~ Church Street School Co-Founder Prepares to Step Down
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘A Gifted Teacher with a Dream’ Church Street School Co-Founder Prepares to Step Down One of the founders of a Lower Manhattan institution is stepping aside. Dr. Lisa Ecklund-Flores announced earlier this month that, after 30 years at the helm of the Church Street School for Music and […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/23/21 ~ Rally Today Will Focus On Possible Fiscal Cataclysm Facing Battery Park City Condo Owners
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘The Worst-Case Scenario’ Rally Today Will Focus On Possible Fiscal Cataclysm Facing Battery Park City Condo Owners Above: Battery Park City. Below: Justine Cuccia, a co-founder of Democracy for Battery Park City (shown here leading a 2017 rally for the rights of residents) says, “the BPCA collected $338 million […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/22/21 ~ An Outbreak of Affordability in Lower Manhattan ~ Soft Rental Market Puts Downtown Apartments within Reach of Voucher Guidelines, Almost
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News An Outbreak of Affordability Soft Rental Market Puts Downtown Apartments within Reach of Voucher Guidelines, Almost One perverse boon arising from the pandemic coronavirus (and the economic slowdown that it triggered) is a slight—but significant—uptick in housing affordability in Lower Manhattan. A new study from the online real […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/21/21 ~ Analysis Documents Migration Out of Lower Manhattan During Pandemic
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Depopulation of Downtown Analysis Documents Migration Out of Lower Manhattan During Pandemic An intriguing new data analysis from CBRE, the real estate services and investment firm, quantifies how many people left Lower Manhattan permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, “COVID-19 Impact on Migration Patterns,” uses change-of-address […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/20/21 ~ Postponed Park Premieres New FiDi Public Space Is Culmination of More Than a Decade of Advocacy and Planning
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Postponed Park Premieres New FiDi Public Space Is Culmination of More Than a Decade of Advocacy and Planning Above: A schematic drawing of the new park, highlighting the various design concepts that have been incorporated into different “zones” of the space. Below: Elizabeth H. Berger A new green […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/19/21 ~ Would a Swim Facility that Doubles as a Floating Filtration System be a Net Plus?
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Pooling of Interests Would a Swim Facility that Doubles as a Floating Filtration System be a Net Plus? A rendering of how +Pool would appear moored along the East River waterfront of Lower Manhattan. Community Board 1 (CB1) is continuing a decade of grassroots advocacy by prodding […]
The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 4/16/21 ~ HRPT Moves Ahead with Plans to Recast Former Tow Pound as Waterfront Park
View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Piering Into the Future HRPT Moves Ahead with Plans to Recast Former Tow Pound as Waterfront Park Demolition and reconstruction work now underway will transform it into a public open space the size of three football fields. Lower Manhattan residents who use the Hudson River Greenway to traverse […]