Year: 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage An April Intervention The Hunter and the Hunted, Along with a Haunted Onlooker Isaiah Berlin famously observed that, “the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” A Lower Manhattan resident thought of this on a Saturday afternoon in mid-April, when Downtown was locked...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage The Curve Flattens Rate of Increase for Confirmed Infections Among Downtown Residents Tapers Off Lower Manhattan’s eight zip codes are the site of 585 confirmed cases of coronavirus, up from 529 cases on April 17, which represents an increase of approximately 10.5 percent in one week. This rate...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Hostel Intentions Downtown Hotel Business May Be an Enduring Casualty of Pandemic The Conrad Hotel, in Battery Park City, is being used to house healthcare workers battling the pandemic coronavirus. As local travel and tourism have ground to a halt in the wake of the pandemic coronavirus, one...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Speaking Up for What Was Left Out Upstart Assembly Member Opposes Governor and Legislative Leaders on Budget State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou: “We’re facing a crisis. The State budget asked us as legislators to respond to decades of shortfalls by cutting more — even as we know that our...

EYES TO THE SKY April 20 – May 3, 2020 Not to be missed: International Dark Sky Week programs reach us at home. Now in progress, International Dark Sky Week IDSW, April 19-26: The International Dark-Sky Association invites us — with a special nod to homebound families — to engage with dynamic authors, educators, artists,...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Beaker takes a seat on Stone Street and wonders, “Where’d everybody go?” photo by Iphy Murphy COVID-19 and your pets. A Guide from the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare Click here to read about how to care for your pet during the COVID-19 Pandemic It’s Like Deja Vu...