Month: January 2022

View as Webpage The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Ferry Lucrative City Bestows Richer Subsidies and a Longer Contract on Passenger Boat Service The ferry terminal on the Esplanade (near Vesey Street), where the City inaugurated in August a new ferry service between Battery Park City and Staten Island, hosts 50 vessels each weekday...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper The Garden Path New American Opera Now in Performance at Museum of Jewish Heritage The full cast of “The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis,” a new opera now in performance at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. (credit: Steven Pisano) The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is now presenting...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper All Quiet in the Quinary Data for Fifth Precinct Show Crime Rates Remain Steady The NYPD’s Fifth Precinct, located at Elizabeth Street (between Canal and Bayard Streets) covers the Lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Chinatown, Little Italy, and the Bowery. While Lower Manhattan neighborhoods like Battery Park...

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Chain Reaction Hundreds of Local Storefronts Remain Rented to Corporate Brands, While Small Businesses Struggle, and Landlords Warehouse Empty Space A row of storefronts on Hanover Square is emblematic of the shifting ground in Lower Manhattan, where small businesses face ruin in the current economic slowdown....

View as Webpage The Broadsheet: Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet: Sheldon Silver Former Assembly Speaker Who Represented Lower Manhattan Before Facing Prison Dies at 77 Sheldon Silver, pictured with Congressman Jerry Nadler, on the subway in September, 2011, extolling the recovery of Lower Manhattan in the decade after the terrorist attacks of September...

Eyes to the Sky January 24 – February 4, 2022 Halfway to spring, be mesmerized by winter stars, captivated by crescent moon, planets The constellation Canis major, aka the Great Dog, and Orion trace an arc from east-southeast at about 6pm to west-southwest, where they set well after midnight.  Image credit: https://arabiannightsrum.com/stars/winter-constellations/canis-major/ Winter skies are the most inviting to naked eye...