Month: October 2020

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Who Says ‘It Can’t Happen Here’? Shades of ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ In Staged Reading of 1930s Cautionary Tale Lewis’s novel was adapted as a play, which Depression Era arts agencies sponsored around the United States. The dramatic reading now being produced by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Enoteca on the Hudson City Winery Opens at Pier 57 Amid scores of restaurant local closures, City Winery has debuted its new location, on Pier 57, within the Hudson River Park While hundreds of Lower Manhattan restaurants have shuttered as a result of the pandemic coronavirus (and dozens...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Guide for the Perplexed A Veteran Poll Worker and Community Leader Reflects on a Moment When the Franchise Is More Confounding Than Usual Battery Park City resident Bob Schneck is a longtime activist, community leader, and poll worker, who is concerned about the process of voting this...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Should They Stay Or Should They Go? State Judge Halts Planned Transfer of Homeless Men to FiDi Hotel In a dramatic reversal of a previous ruling, New York State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Monday afternoon granted a temporary restraining order barring the administration of Mayor Bill...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Off Again, On Again… Judge Declines to Prevent Move of Homeless Men to 52 William State Supreme Court Justice Debra James on Friday rebuffed a legal motion by Downtown New Yorkers, Inc.—which organized in recent weeks to mobilize against a plan by the administration of Mayor Bill de...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Fresh as a Daisy Kavanagh Honors Lower East Side Activist as Woman of Distinction Senator Kavanagh presents Ms. Paez with a proclamation honoring her as a Woman of Distinction Daisy Paez, a Lower East Side activist who has served for years as a local District Leader, and is...