Month: June 2022

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Avigation Abnegation City Council Mulls Legislation to Clip Wings of Whirlybirds Above: Passengers aboard a “doors-off” tourist flight banking over the Brooklyn Bridge. Below: The scene on the East River in March, 2018, where a “doors-off” flight crashed, killing all five people onboard. A bill...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT A Long Row to Hoe CB1 Pushes Vision to Beautify Downtown Thoroughfare Closed for Decades Above: This aerial view (looking south along Park Row, from Chatham Square toward the Brooklyn Bridge) illustrates the beautification measures proposed for a major Downtown Street that...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Note to readers: The BroadsheetDAILY will not publish on Monday, June 20, in deference to the federal holiday of Juneteenth. We’ll be back in your inbox on June 21. Still Working on ‘Absolute Equality’ Juneteenth Observance Planned for Tomorrow Above: In 1838, abolitionist Frederick Douglass...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Wentworth Downtown Lower Manhattan City Council Rep Seeks Conversion of Local Jail to Women’s Facility, In Lieu of Demolition and Reconstruction Above: City Council member Christopher Marte: “With minor renovations, the South Tower could easily be converted to an all-female facility for the women currently...

In early evening twilight, near the top of an azure sky, a singular golden point of light appears to the inquisitive sky gazer. It is Arcturus (-0.07magnitude), the brightest star in the summer sky, high in the southeast at about 9:10pm. Gazing in a northerly direction, one other ray of starlight penetrates Earth’s dimming blue...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage The Madding Crowd Your Share of Space Downtown Comes to 535 Square Feet Updated census data and demographic metrics from the Population Fact Finder compiled by the Department of City Planning (DCP) indicate that the headcount of residents in Community District 1 (CD1), a collection...