Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Doing Good While Doing Well Howard Hughes Practices Corporate Citizen in the Seaport Mr. Scherl and Howard Hughes staffers volunteering at the Bowery Mission, where they helped to serve free meals to underprivileged clients. If the giving season is an appropriate time to […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Back to the Drawing Board City Landmarks Agency Agrees with CB1 about “Disaster and Affront” A view of the facade proposed for 11 Hubert Street, which Mr. Ehrmann describes as, “a prison, guarding the residents from us.” The City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com A Friend of the Court Landmarks Agency Says Justice Complex May Merit Protection The New Deal-era Criminal Courts Building at 100 Centre Street is widely regarded as a historic treasure, but does not currently enjoy any legal protection that would prevent it from […]

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com A Cup of Good Cheer Among Neighbors Gateway Tenants Group to Host Holiday Get-Together Tonight Gateway Plaza residents, and members of the GPTA board, gathered last year (with State Senator Brian Kavanagh) at Le Pain Quotidien, for the organization’s annual holiday party. This […]

EYES TO THE SKY December 9-22, 2019 Venus and Saturn, Full Cold Moon Winter Solstice Today’s sunset, earliest of the year, down to the second, is at 4:28:30pm. Sunset time is seconds later beginning tomorrow, until it is nearly one minute later, 4:29:27 on December 15. Afternoons will be noticeably lighter by month’s end. Sunrise […]

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 […]

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 potentially troubling question. As BPCA management reviewed plans to spend some $300 […]

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 […]

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 a stop that is slated for elimination. Tonight (Tuesday, December 3) the […]

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 […]