Month: July 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Inundation Exhortation Federal Report Foresees More Frequent Flooding for Lower Manhattan Flooding at the Battery (seen here during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy) may become a once-every-three-days event in decades ahead, according to a new federal report. A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Ill Deeds Done Bill Would Impede Easing Restrictions on Use of Health Facilities Rivington House, which operated for decades as a nursing facility, but was closed when purchased by real estate speculators who planned to convert the 150,000-square-foot structure into luxury condominiums. A bill recently ratified by the...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Referendum Addendum One Month Later, Election Results Are Official (Sort Of…) Yuh-Line Niou Slightly more than a month after the contested primary for the Democratic Party nomination to represent Lower Manhattan in the State Assembly, something resembling a final result is available. On Wednesday, incumbent Yuh-Line Niou and...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Welcome to the Occupation Protestors Driven from City Hall Park Consider What They Accomplished, and What Remains to Be Done The Occupy City Hall encampment, which was demolished by police on Wednesday. In the hours before dawn on Wednesday morning, NYPD officers in riot gear swept through the...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Weir and When Thursday Online Meeting Will Review Resiliency Plans for Northern Battery Park City One design concept under consideration for the Esplanade on Battery Park City’s northern edge would extend the walkway more than 20 feet into the water, creating space for new anti-flooding infrastructure, as well...

Jupiter and Saturn all night, Venus daybreak Astrophotographer Mihail Minkov’s Star Catcher placed first in the International Dark Sky Association’s “Connecting to the Dark” category of IDA’s first annual photography competition, “Capture the Dark”. Minkov accompanied the photograph with this statement: “I have a four-year-old daughter. She is fascinated by the planets, stars and the Milky Way....