Month: December 2019

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com The BroadsheetDAILY  and the print edition of the Broadsheet  will resume on January 6, 2020. Happy Holidays to All! Shutter to Think Turns Out That Ignorance of the Law Is an Actually Pretty Good Excuse The 1867 structure at 315 Church Street, which...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Listen to the sounds of the season at the Seaport Bridge of Sighs CB1 Meeting Tonight Will Be Last Opportunity to Support Preservation of Rector Street Bridge The Rector Street pedestrian bridge, which was constructed in 2002 and originally slated for demolition in...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Exaction Redaction Downtown Traffic May Ease as Congress Okays Change to Verrazzano Toll The Verrazzano Bridge is located more than eight miles from Lower Manhattan, but multiple studies indicate that tolling patterns there have a significant impact on traffic congestion here. The United...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Recalling Five Points Epicenter of a Notorious Slum Proposed for Commemoration The Five Points gang, a criminal organization that drew its members from the ethnic immigrant populations that inhabited the neighborhood. In 1831, the City government considered a petition that warned, “that the...

Recalling Five Points Epicenter of a Notorious Slum Proposed for Commemoration The Five Points gang, a criminal organization that drew its members from the ethnic immigrant populations that inhabited the neighborhood. In 1831, the City government considered a petition that warned, “that the place known as “Five points” has long been notorious… as being the...