Month: October 2021

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/22/21 ~ The Local Newspaper of Lower Manhattan ~ New Jersey Gets A Head

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper New Jersey Gets A Head Garden State Shushes Gotham Sculptor Jaume Plensa says, “Water is the great public space—it does not belong to anyone and at the same time belongs to all of us.” Lower Manhattan residents have a new reason to gaze westward, after the...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/21/21 ~ EDC Points to Rising Ridership on New Ferry Route from Staten Island

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Ferry Popular EDC Points to Rising Ridership on New Ferry Route from Staten Island Statistics from the City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), posted online Wednesday by Staten Island Borough President James Oddo, indicate steadily increasing ridership on the new NYC Ferry route that connects Staten Island...
Battery Park City Ferry Terminal

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/20/21 ~ Bruno Pomponio, Guardian of Community’s Greenspaces Steps Down

View as Webpage photo: Theo Simko The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper He Made the Swale Swell The Guardian of Community’s Greenspaces Steps Down Above: Mr. Pomponio escorts three generations of his family on a tour of the community to which he has devoted his professional life for 25 years. Below: Bruno Pomponio: “there’s a real...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/19/21 ~ Legendary Actors Studio Offers Free Plays in FiDi Now Through November

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper An Avant-Garde Bargain Legendary Actors Studio Offers Free Plays in FiDi Now Through November A cycle of Broadway-quality theatrical productions is being staged over the coming five weeks in Lower Manhattan, by people who will likely be working on Broadway very soon—students graduating from the fabled...

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/18/21 ~ Recalling Five Points Epicenter of a Notorious Slum Memorialized

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Recalling Five Points Epicenter of a Notorious Slum Memorialized An 1885 newspaper sketch depicts “respectable” New Yorkers being escorted through the Five Points slum, safeguarded by a police officer. The City has decided to dignify a district that was once a source of shame and that...
The Five Points gang, a criminal organization that drew its members from the ethnic immigrant populations that inhabited the neighborhood.

The BroadsheetDAILY ~ 10/15/21 ~ Annual South Street Seaport Food-a-Palooza Returns Saturday

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper A Taste for Learning Annual Seaport Food-a-Palooza Returns Saturday More than 30 Lower Manhattan restaurants are slated to participate in tomorrow’s Taste of the Seaport. The 11th Annual Taste of the Seaport festival will come to the South Street Seaport tomorrow (Saturday, October 16), with food...