Author: Matthew Fenton

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...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage FiDi Food Hall Burgled Thieves Break into UrbanSpace Market, Abscond with Cash The UrbanSpace food hall opened this summer at 100 Pearl Street, in the Financial District. Below: Video captured by a surveillance camera shows two thieves breaking into cabinets within the market, searching for...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage On Common Ground BPCA Asks for Ideas about Upgrades to the Promenade More than 28,000 square feet of public space on the stone promenade between Battery Place and Third Place may be upgraded to accommodate recreational uses. The Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) is seeking...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Au Revoir to Pepperoni and Pinot Noir Two Legacy Emporia Endangered by Rising Rents Epitomize Battery Park City’s Evolution Into a Community of Shopkeepers No More The side-by-side storefronts of Picasso Pizza and Bulls & Bears Winery, which have been local landmarks on South End...

The Broadsheet – Lower Manhattan’s Local Newspaper View as Webpage Between the Hammer and the Anvil City to Spray Low Concentration of Mosquito Poison Through Lower Manhattan Tonight Above: A truck from the City’s Department of Health fleet spreads a fog of insecticide. Below: A map from the Department of Health outlines the areas where...