Secrets and Lies
A Victory in the Battle to Disclose City’s Knowledge of September 11 Health Risks
A Niou Day in Lower Manhattan
Financial District resident Yuh-Line Niou has won the primary race to determine which of six candidates would get the Democratic Party nomination to represent Lower Manhattan’s 65th Assembly district in Albany for the next two years. Although the general election is in November, the heavily “blue” landscape of Lower Manhattan makes the nomination of the...
Today in History
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism. 1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him 1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore....
Broadsheet Profile: Assembly Candidate Gigi Li
Gigi Li believes that leadership consists of listening, as much as talking. “Smart plans are voter-informed and voter-driven,” she says. “Most of my agenda has come from speaking to constituents on the street and at their doors.” As an example, Ms. Li cites her plan to reform the Battery Park City Authority — with at...
RiverWatch
Friday, September 23 AIDAluna Inbound 7:15 am; in port overnight Saturday, September 24 Carnival Sunshine Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; New England/Canada Norwegian Gem Inbound 7:15 am; outbound 4:30 pm; Canada/New England Regal Princess Inbound 5:30 am (Brooklyn); outbound 5:00 pm; New England/Canada Sunday, September 25 Norwegian Breakaway Inbound 7:45 am; outbound 4:30 pm;...
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....
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....
