End of the Road

Resilience Plans for Hudson River Cul de Sacs Include Eight-Foot Walls and Underground Tide Gates

Today in History

1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Half Moon 1938 – Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. 1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island....
The morning of September 12th

Letters

To the editor, Everyone I know has a story about where they were on 9/11. The days and weeks following that terrible day were a time of otherworldly confusion, particularly for people who lived and worked downtown. I am grateful to the Broadsheet for highlighting in the photograph below, the great community organizer Bob Townley....
Post 911 meeting with community leaders and elected officials on the basketball court, north of Canal Street on the Avenue of the Americas

Broadsheet Profile: Assembly Candidate Don Lee

“The South End Avenue redesign is a major development project masquerading as a transportation safety initiative. The World Trade Center complex is a shopping mall disguised as a train station that was built at public expense and still went $2 billion over budget. We need to hold government accountable, and to make it transparent.” Don...

Letters

To the editor, Just wanted to tell all our friends and neighbors that we developed warm and caring relationships with during our tenure at Gateway Plaza “Happy Birthday.” Even though we live in Florida our hearts are still in Battery Park City especially during this time of year. We say ‘Happy Birthday’ because on that...

Broadsheet Profile: Assembly Candidate Alice Cancel

Alone among the aspirants for the 65th Assembly district seat, Alice Cancel can speak not only of what she hopes to do as a member of the Assembly, but of what she has done. That is because Ms. Cancel was elected in April of this year, to serve for the two remaining months of the...
As a result of winning a special election held in April, Alice Cancel served the remaining time in Sheldon Silver's term in the Assembly. She is now running for a full, two-year term.