Year: 2020

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Hear and Be Heard The Battery Park City Authority will host a public meetings about resiliency and sustainability tonight Thursday (January 16). The Thursday session will focus on the Battery Park City Sustainability Plan, which is now being formulated, and will be held at...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com When a Deadline Becomes a Lifeline Renewed Victims Compensation Fund Extends Cutoff Date for Registration Following last summer’s passage of a new law that extends (and expands funding for) the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund (VCF), the Fund will be accepting claims until...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Chain Reaction Hundreds of Local Storefronts Remain Rented to Corporate Brands Forlorn mannequins populate the window at the former Saks Fifth Avenue space within Brookfield Place, shortly after it closed, in December, 2018. The facility has since been converted into a conference center,...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com They Didn’t Get the Memo… Much-Touted Crackdown on Placard Parking Not All It Was Cracked Up to Be In spite of a putative crackdown on placard parking abuse that was slated to begin Monday, dozens of illegally parked cars bearing law enforcement placards...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Ferklempt Cuomo Announces Planned Expansion of Museum of Jewish Heritage Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to expand the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which is located within Wagner Park, in Battery Park City. At his annual State of the State address, delivered Wednesday...

Lower Manhattan’s Local News The Broadsheet Inc. | 212-912-1106 | editor@ebroadsheet.com | ebroadsheet.com Compensation Dispensation Class-Action Suit on Behalf of Gateway Tenants Reaches Proposed Settlement Attorneys representing Gateway Plaza residents in a class-action suit that began in 2014 have reached a tentative settlement with the LeFrak Organization, the landlords at Battery Park City’s largest residential complex,...