Year: 2020

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ Who Got What: Federal Loan Program Bails Out Local Small (and Not-So-Small) Businesses

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Who Got What: Battery Park City Federal Loan Program Bails Out Local Small (and Not-So-Small) Businesses The Museum of Jewish Heritage (Editor’s Note: This is the first in an occasional series of stories detailing the impact of federal bailout funds on Lower Manhattan businesses.) The federal Paycheck Protection...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 10 ~ Finalists Announced in Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Higher, Wider, Handsomer Finalists Announced in Design Competition to Improve Pedestrian Access to Brooklyn Bridge On some weekends, as many as 15,000 pedestrians and 3,600 cyclists compete with each other and souvenir vendors for as little as 10 feet of width on the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge,...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 6 ~ Lawn Gone

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty Department of Defense 4th of July flyover Photo: Karl Weintraub Lawn Gone Open Space Advocate Wants City Hall Park Returned to Community The Occupy City Hall encampment at Chambers and Centre Streets. A local advocate for Lower Manhattan open spaces...

Lights, Camera, Violation Local Traffic Monitoring Device is Part of City-Wide Expansion

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Lights, Camera, Violation Local Traffic Monitoring Device is Part of City-Wide Expansion A work crew installs a new traffic monitoring device at the corner of West and West Thames Streets. Lower Manhattan residents may soon be slightly safer, if lighter in the pocket, thanks to a new traffic...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ July 6, 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty Department of Defense 4th of July flyover Photo: Karl Weintraub Lawn Gone Open Space Advocate Wants City Hall Park Returned to Community The Occupy City Hall encampment at Chambers and Centre Streets. A local advocate for Lower Manhattan open spaces...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 7/3/20 ~ National Thoughts: Been There, Done That Theseus Aweighs Anchor on Troubled Waters

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Tourists are Returning Downtown photo Dorothy Lipsky  Active in the BPC community since 1994 Barbara.Ireland@Sothebys.Realty National Thoughts: Been There, Done That Theseus Aweighs Anchor on Troubled Waters WPA Photo Library of Congress We’re only halfway through 2020, but already, many of us have the sense that we will...