Month: October 2022

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Star Turns Battery Park City Restaurant Loses Michelin Ranking, But Five New Downtown Eateries Are Honored Above: L’Appart (in Brookfield Place) lost the Michelin star it has held since 2017. Below: New entrant Saga (on the rooftop of 70 Pine Street) gained two stars. The...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Street Wise Local Advocacy Group Seeks to Make the Pedestrian King in Lower Manhattan Above: a proposal for a “slow-street district” between Broadway and Water Street, from City Hall to the Battery, within which vehicular traffic would be subject to a ten mile-per-hour speed limit....

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Viral Outbreak in FiDi Gutsy Guy Gambles on Gambol Along the Gambrels A man in a business suit leaps between dormer windows at 90 West Street (below, at the intersection of Albany Street), more than 300 feet in the air. A impromptu video of a...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Valorizing Velocipedes Borough President Proposes Turning One Lane of West Street Over to Bicycles The bike lane alongside West Street is heavily used. Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has proposed to remove the westernmost traffic lane of West Street, from Chambers to West 57th Street...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Better Than Mops and Buckets The $52 Billion Plan to Protect New York from Flooding Ten years after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, a new study from the Army Corps of Engineers aims to protect New York from the kind of flooding that swamped...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage ‘No Way This Could Have Been Predicted’ Doorman and Woman Walking Dog Assaulted on Rector Place The entrance to Liberty House condominium, where a doorman was assaulted Monday morning. Amid rising concerns about violent street crime in Lower Manhattan, the overnight doorman at the Liberty...