Month: May 2022

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Wagnerian Vigilance Public Comment Period for BPCA’s Plans to Build Flood Walls and Elevated Landscaping Concludes Friday Short, animated videos of the future Wagner Park and surroundings help illuminate plans for the South Battery Park City Resilience project that will begin construction soon. For several...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Where’s Their Memorial? Unsettled Thoughts About Unsettled Debts The New York Times front page, May 26, 2022 This is the weekend when we are called to reflect upon the incalculable debt owed to courageous men and women who gave their lives defending this country. True,...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage ‘A Seat at the Table’ CB1 Wants a Voice in How to Allocate BPCA Funds Collected Here, Sent Elsewhere Battery Park City buildings line Rockefeller Park along River Terrace. Local leaders are demanding a commitment from elected officials and the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA)...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage 23 and NYPD Downtown Non-Profit Sues to Halt DNA Collection from New Yorkers Convicted of No Crime Above: Protestors take over West Street on July 4, 2020. The Legal Aide Society alleges that many of these demonstrators were subjected to illegal (and secret) DNA collection...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Waves of Woe Jet Ski Accident Claims One Life, Injures Second Passenger, in Waters Off Battery Park City A rescue diver emerges from the Hudson, after searching beneath the Brookfield Place ferry terminal for a missing water scooter passenger on Saturday evening. A waterborne outing...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage ‘A Bold, Progressive, And Unapologetic Voice For Our Communities’ Yuh-Line Niou Announces Candidacy for Newly Created Lower Manhattan Congressional District Above: Congressional candidate Yuh-Line Niou at her campaign kick-off in Columbus Park on Saturday, flanked by actress (and onetime candidate for Governor) Cynthia Nixon and...