Year: 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News View as Webpage Desperate Times for Street Food Vendors Council Member and Advocacy Group Petition for Funds and to Suspend Most Enforcement Actions Toward Food Carts Street vendors, who are mostly ineligible for benefits like unemployment or health insurance, have recently suffered losses of more than 80 percent of their usual...

View as Webpage photo: Jeff Galloway Lower Manhattan’s Local News Comfort and Mercy Navy Hospital Ships Dispatched to New York and Los Angeles The hospital ship USNS Comfort passes the Statue of Liberty on her previous operational deployment to New York, in the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Two military vessels...

Child’s Play at the Battery Local kids help break ground for the Battery Playscape Joined by elected officials, Lower Manhattan leaders, and a couple of excited Downtown kids, the Battery Conservancy broke ground on March 12 for the Battery Playscape, an unusual playground for children of all ages and abilities. To open in Spring of...

View as Webpage photo: Jeff Galloway Contact The Broadsheet Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Niou Deal Assembly Member Proposes Finance Reform as Funding Mechanism for Affordable Housing State Assembly member Yuh-Line Niou: “When you go shopping in New York City, how much extra do you pay for sales tax? This transfer tax of one-half of...

WANTED: Your Coronavirus story in one hundred words. Photo welcome, but not necessary. Please send an email to editor@ebroadsheet.com to let us know how you are managing during these trying times. ———————————————————————————– coveni covidi covici Maryna Lansky —————————————————————————— To the editor, I went down to lower Manhattan on Monday to take photos of Pier 15 on...

Going to the Mattresses Lower Manhattan Hunkers Down, as Coronavirus Crisis Grinds On Multiple residents of Lower Manhattan have now tested positive for the pandemic coronavirus, including one tenant at Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City, who has been hospitalized and is breathing with the assistance of a mechanical ventilator, according to a range sources...