Month: November 2020

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/18/20 ~ ‘Not with a Bang…’ Poetry Library Shuts Down, Citing Pandemic Woes

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News ‘Not with a Bang…’ Poetry Library Shuts Down, Citing Pandemic Woes The Battery Park City Authority recruited Poets House to locate in new headquarters at Ten River Terrace, in 2004. Poets House, one of a slew of cultural institutions brought to the community by the Battery Park City...
POETS HOUSE

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/17/20 ~ Giving Locally, Impacting Globally Eleemosynary Advice for Reaching Out and Making a Difference Downtown

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News BLOOD DRIVE TODAY Click here for more info 12 pm – 6 pm 6 River Terrace New York, NY 10282 Giving Locally, Impacting Globally Eleemosynary Advice for Reaching Out and Making a Difference Downtown An iconic photograph of homeless children in Lower Manhattan, by pioneering photojournalist Jacob Riis,...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/16/20/ ~ Getting into Hot Water Court Rules That FiDi Condo Buyers Can Recover Damages from Developer for Shoddy Construction

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Getting into Hot Water Court Rules That FiDi Condo Buyers Can Recover Damages from Developer for Shoddy Construction The Be@William condominium at 90 William Street, where apartment buyers allege shoddy workmanship cost them $3 million to repair, which they now seek to recover from the developer. More than...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/13/20 ~ A Victim’s Vengeance

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News A Victim’s Vengeance New Sculpture on Centre Street Inverts Myth to Send a Feminist Message Sculptor Luciano Garbati’s “Medusa with the Head of Perseus,” now on display in Collect Pond Park, on Centre Street. In a caustic counterpoint to the “Fearless Girl” statue that attracted worldwide attention after...
Sculptor Luciano Garbati’s “Medusa with the Head of Perseus,”

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/12/20 ~ Decrying the Decree CB1 Backs Stringer on Rescinding Mayor’s Emergency Authority

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Decrying the Decree CB1 Backs Stringer on Rescinding Mayor’s Emergency Authority The guard posted to the lobby of the Radisson New York Wall Street Hotel (corner of William and Pine Streets, one block from Federal Hall). Requisitioning hotels as homeless shelters is among the $1.5 billion in contracts...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 11/10/20 ~ Downtown Traffic May Ease with Split Verrazzano Toll

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Excise Revise Downtown Traffic May Ease with Split Verrazzano Toll In a photograph taken in 2019, MTA chief Patrick Foye describes a plan to reinstitute two-way tolling on the Verrazzano Bridge, as (left to right) New York City Council Member Margaret Chin, State Senator Brian Kavanagh, and U.S. Congress...