Year: 2021

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Vile Vexillology Confederate Battle Flag Found Tied to Front Door of Museum of Jewish Heritage The front doors of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, where a Confederate flag was found on Friday morning. The “stars and bars” standard flown by the army of the Confederate States of America,...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Staycated Appeals Court Upholds Order Delaying Move of Homeless Men to FiDi On Tuesday, a five-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division affirmed an earlier ruling (issued on December 3), which has the effect of halting once again the planned transfer of more than...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News What Killed All Those Fish? The dead menhaden fish that bobbed at the surface of the water off Lower Manhattan and throughout the Hudson-Raritan Estuary and Long Island Sound during the month of December are gone now. But the concern remains. What killed the fish? Scientists in the...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Can Anybody Spare $100,000 Per Month? CB1 Discussion Tonight Will Review Skyrocketing Costs of Home Ownership in Battery Park City Tonight (Wednesday, January 6) the Battery Park City Committee of Community Board 1 (CB1) will host a discussion about affordability for condominium owners, for whom the cost of...

View as Webpage Lower Manhattan’s Local News Adit Up Architects Propose to Reclaim Park Tribeca Lost Nearly a Century Ago Above: A view from above, illustrating the smaller parks (at street level) located at the corners of the Holland Tunnel Rotary, which would act as gateways to the Lower Plaza, submerged below the existing exit...

Eyes to the Sky January 4 – 17, 2021 Early nightfall and late sunup beckon to stargazers before days lengthen The last of the longest nights of the year are bookended by planet Venus taking final bows in early morning twilight in the southeast and planets Jupiter and Saturn poised at the edge of the...