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District Leader Rajkumar Kicks Off Campaign for Assembly Seat
Six days after the replacement for the former State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was elected, the campaign to succeed his successor began, as elected Democratic Party District Leader and civil rights lawyer Jenifer Rajkumar officially declared her candidacy on Monday evening. Before a crowd of 100 people at SouthWestNY restaurant, Ms. Rajkumar said, “for too […]
Gym Dandy
The Community Center at Stuyvesant High School is cutting prices across all categories of membership, the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA), which operates the facility, has announced. “What we have in Community Center at Stuyvesant High School is an outstanding community resource — which the community isn’t fully using,” said BPCA President Hyman. “Now, with […]
Contractual Obligations
The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) has doubled the dollar value of contracts that requires approval from its directors, but the board rejected a request by the Authority’s management team to increase this threshold, in some cases, to more than three times its original amount. At the January 27 meeting of the Authority’s board, BPCA […]
Letters to the Editor
Dear Broadsheet Editor, Congratulations on your excellent investigative journalism. The day after the story of diligent reporters (“Spotlight”) netted the best picture Oscar, it is gratifying to see that the Broadsheet does all it can to expose the grubby details of the sweetheart deal that the BPCA gave Allied Barton. As a neighbor of the BPC, who has […]
Vocation and Visitation
The Downtown Alliance’s annual real estate review indicates that the year just ended was remarkable in two respects: more people now work in the square mile at the bottom of Manhattan than at any time since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and more people visited here than ever before. The jobs numbers show […]
Cuomo Commits to $15 Minimum Wage, Except in Battery Park City
Governor Andrew Cuomo spent much of the last week making public appearances and delivering speeches to build support for his avowed goal of enacting a mandatory minimum wage of $15 per hour for every employee, public or private, in the State of New York. But an agency that he directly controls, the Battery Park City […]
Truth, Justice, and the Occasional Refund
Three hundred years ago, when New Yorkers were still British subjects, there were redcoats patrolling the streets of Lower Manhattan. Today, they’re still here — but much friendlier. The lobsterbacks of the 21st Century are the Downtown Alliance’s Public Safety Officers, who handle everything from medical emergencies to interventions on behalf of aggrieved tourists who […]
A Shore Thing
The February 16 meeting of the Seaport/Civic Center Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) considered whether Lower Manhattan deserves a beach of its own. Graeme Birchall, president of the Downtown Boathouse, a local non-profit organization that promotes public access to the water, spoke in support of creating one. He also responded to “Brooklyn Bridge Beach: Feasibility […]
Emotionally Disturbed Man Menaces Residents
Three female Battery Park City residents were accosted by an agitated homeless man on Monday afternoon near South Cove. “We were sitting on the wooden deck, overlooking the water, recalls Frances Misciangna, a 15-year resident of Battery Park City, “when we saw a man, who was lurching and incoherent, stagger toward us. He may have […]
Decisions Are Made By Those Who Show Up
Legendary newspaper editor John B. Bogart (who ruled over the New York Sun from 1873 to 1890) summed up journalism this way: “When man bites dog, that’s news.” Steps away from Bogart’s former headquarters at Chambers and Broadway, an even rarer — and more consequential — reversal of accustomed roles will take place tomorrow (Saturday, February 20), […]
Apseity Facto
More than 100 residents of the Financial District, along with elected officials and representatives of City government agencies, were on hand for the February 11 kickoff meeting of the FiDi Neighborhood Association. Although Lower Manhattan’s other communities (Tribeca, Battery Park City, and the Seaport/Civic Center District) have long had a strong local identity and distinct […]
They Campaigned in Poetry, But Will Govern in Prose
With over 60,000 volumes of poetry, over 80,000 visitors annually and millions of viewers online, Poets House sets the standard for national literary programming. Nicholas Potter On February 12, America’s poetry library elected new leadership to its board of directors. Nicholas Potter was elected president of the board of directors, has been a member of […]
Sight Unseen
The management team at the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) asked members of the agency’s board to approve more than 100 pages of financial statements and regulatory filings that only one of them had read, because the documents were legally required to be submitted to State overseers 48 hours later. At the January 27 meeting […]
How Gold Street Got Its Name, But Might as Well Been Dubbed for Another Color
The origins of “Gold Street” — in the heart of Manhattan’s Financial District — are easy to imagine. After all, the surrounding collective wealth is almost unimaginable. The Federal Reserve Bank alone stands guard over seven thousand tons of gold, worth more than $250 billion. But there was gold in the neighborhood long before Wall […]
Monkeying Around
A capacity crowd of several hundred diplomats, financiers, academics, and entertainment celebrities packed the Cipriani 42nd Street ballroom last Friday to welcome the Year of the Monkey with the China Institute, the nation’s leading nonprofit devoted to fostering closer ties between China and the United States. Banker and philanthropist Ted Wang, who serves on the […]
Today in History: February 3
1690 – First paper money in America issued in the colony of Massachusetts 1740 – Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily 1882 – Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys his world famous elephant, Jumbo. Jumbo was born in East Africa in late 1960, was captured two years later and brought […]
Spate of 'Super-Tall' Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households
In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank […]
Spate of ‘Super-Tall’ Towers Will Swell Count of Lower Manhattan Households
In the years to come, Lower Manhattan may become a thicket of “super-tall” apartment buildings, if present trends continue. The local movement toward the stratosphere began in 2008, when developer Forest City Ratner began construction of the 76-story tower at Eight Spruce Street. Now known as New York by Gehry, for its star architect, Frank […]