The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage MOCA Ascendant A New Home for a Culture ‘Not Really Allowed to Call This Place Home’ Above: A rendering of the planned new home of the Museum of Chinese in America, on Centre Street. Below: Architect Maya Lin: “We are a country where, unless you’re...
The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage The Chinatown Ten Phalanx of Local Leaders Arrested Protesting Start of Demolition at Lower Manhattan Jail Complex Above: Protestors block Baxter Street to obstruct the start of demolition at the Manhattan Demolition Complex, led by Jan Lee (center): “Until the Mayor meets with us, and...
The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Girl-Illa Art City’s Design Panel Gives New Lease on Life to Local Agitprop Icon Washington Street Advocacy Group president Todd Fine joins District Leader (and State Senate candidate) Vittoria Fariello and artist Kristen Visbal (on screen, in center) at the site of Ms. Visbal’s “Fearless...
The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Don’t Fence Them In Protestors Resolved to Block Start of New Jail Above: Jan Lee, co-founder of Neighbors United Below Canal: “Chinatown has witnessed the City tear down jails and build bigger ones before, and they have never got it right. When you build bigger...
The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Getting to the Route of the Problem CB1 Discusses BPCA Revamp of South End Avenue, Calls for ‘Soft Reboot’ of 2018 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...
The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage A Remnant Remembered America’s First Synagogue Celebrates Anniversary at Site Where, Centuries Before Liberty’s Lamp, Lower Manhattan Offered Refuge to Persecuted Jews An engraving of the original Mill Street Synagogue, which opened in Lower Manhattan (on what is now South William Street) in 1730. On...